- “In every age ’the good old days’ were myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.” [ BROOK ATKINSON , “ February 8, Once Around the Sun (1950)]
- “ Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.” [NICOLAS BOILEAU , L’Art Poetique (1674)]
- “ Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has different face for all that one says and does.” [ GOETHE, quoted in Johann Peter Eckermann’s Conversation with Goethe, Febr 25, 1824 ]
- “At each epoch of history the world was in hopeless state, an at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.” [JACQUES MARITAIN, Reflections on A MERICA (1958)]
- “Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.” [ SIR THOMAS BROWNE , Christian Morals (1716)]
- “ The Golden age was never the present age.” [ ENGLISH PROBERBS]
- “ Accusing the time is but excusing ourselves.” [ THOMAS FULLER , M.D., Gnomologia (1732)]
- “ If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, it is the great delusion of intellectuals in suppose that all previous ages were less sick.” [LOUIS KRONENBERGER , “ The Spirit of THE Ages ” Company Manners (1954)]
Life Life-Stages-of Live and Death Middle Age Old Age Era Old and Young Adversity Wisdom Solitude Loliness Longevity Love
