Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.
A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.
It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in taxes.
Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.
Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis.
Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.
There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
My book in a nutshell is about the deleterious effects of patriarchy down through the ages for women and for men and how the Bible dismantles this fallen social system. I'm completely persuaded that patriarchy is not the Bible's message, but that it runs counter to God's vision for humanity. It produces tension and disunity between men and women that run contrary to God's vision for his world.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
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.
But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment. . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and for all who come after you.