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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages. -- Will Durant
Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age. -- William Blake
Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it. -- Solomon Schechter
Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages. -- Hans Arp
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. -- Marshall McLuhan
Ages passed I knew at last my life had never been. -- Jethro Tull
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee. -- Augustus Toplady
The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks. -- William Jennings Bryan
Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms -- Joseph McCabe
Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms. -- Joseph McCabe
I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages. -- Connie Chung
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. -- Lytton Strachey
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. -- Frank Zappa
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. -- Tucker Carlson
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. -- Harold Innis
Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history. -- Edith Hamilton
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity. -- David Novak
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. -- Ruth Hurmence Green
The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages. -- Bill Gates
Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining. -- Casper Smart
I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages. -- Charles Spurgeon
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. -- Isaac Mayer Wise
Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past. -- Jane Jacobs
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. -- Bill Mauldin
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. -- Andre Maurois
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today. -- Hans Kung
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. -- Umberto Eco
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. -- Karl Kraus
Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle. -- Matthew D. Heines
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. -- Horatio Alger
I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. -- Tamora Pierce
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline. -- Danielle Trussoni
He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour . -- Andrew Dickson White
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. -- Jerome K. Jerome
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. -- Goldwin Smith
But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages. -- Cressida Cowell
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold. -- Sara Teasdale
But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them. -- Hans Blix
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. -- Richard Dawkins
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. -- Ralph Borsodi
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. -- Lee Iacocca
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages. -- Brent Scowcroft
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. -- Stephen Gardiner
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. -- Adolf Hitler
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. -- Sigmund Freud
Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor! -- Julia Caroline Dorr
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything. -- Neil Postman
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. -- Richard Lederer
Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride! -- Bertha von Suttner
The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths. -- Antony Beevor
We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual. -- John Jay Chapman
The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years. -- Michael Ben-Ari
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages. -- Barbara Tuchman
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. -- Robert Jordan
I loved doing 'Rock of Ages' in N.Y. and that, but its such a large scale, and so many things go into it. -- Tom Lenk
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing. -- Scott Adams
Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change. -- Roger Ailes
Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild. -- Ian Anderson
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. -- Anzia Yezierska
Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend. -- Dan Brown
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. -- Dario Fo
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest. -- Goldwin Smith
What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting? -- H. G. Wells
Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill. -- Rabindranath Tagore
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. -- Paul Hawken
I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly. -- Alexander Payne
This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. -- Richard Jefferies
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages. -- Guru Nanak
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. -- Plato
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. -- Susie Orbach
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. -- Norman Borlaug
A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages. -- Jerry Hall
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. -- Louis Agassiz
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. -- Walt Disney
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. -- Sri Aurobindo
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. -- Jack Kingston
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. -- William Shakespeare
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. -- Adam Ferguson
Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories. -- Seth Shostak
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. -- Sri Aurobindo
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. -- George Washington
I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side. -- Bat for Lashes
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. -- Steve Jobs
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. -- Nikola Tesla
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.' -- Jose Rizal
Nothing ages like laziness. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Now he belongs to the ages. -- Edwin M. Stanton
Morning brings back the heroic ages. -- Henry David Thoreau
Minds ripen at very different ages. -- Stevie Wonder
We all have souls of different ages -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Through the ages one increasing purpose runs. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Music has no limits, borders or ages. -- Thalia
Beauty with character ages better than perfection -- Karl Lagerfeld
It takes ages to turn my pages -- Ramazan Ozbay
It takes me ages to write stuff. -- Chris Lilley
We are the heirs of the ages -- Theodore Roosevelt
It is pain that ages us, not years. -- Bonnie Prudden
In all dying our ages are the same. -- Maureen Duffy
The ages live in history through their anachronisms. -- Oscar Wilde
Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. -- Philip James Bailey
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion. -- Voltaire
Smoking ages you quicker than almost anything else. -- Polly Bergen
We'll blast them back into the stone ages! -- William Westmoreland
I am all the ages I've ever been. -- Anne Lamott
I like all ladies of all different ages. -- Louis C. K.
God is sufficient in all ages for His church. -- John Nelson Darby
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. -- Emile M. Cioran
Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care. -- Bill Nelson
History has repeated itself many times througout the ages. -- Billy Sheehan
I like playing all sorts of ages and genders. -- Chris Lilley

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