Quotes for tag "age"

"This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all the stories about him, and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of the indifference within it, before succumbing to external attack.

~Frank Herbert's *Children of Dune*

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"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."

~~anon

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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

~~Ogden Nash

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

~~Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

~~H. L. Mencken

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