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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about individuality, age, olderness, nothing, good, good luck

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about society, state, age, olderness, nothing

What has just been written will probably do for the Heroic Age which produced Homer, and for that which produced the Nibelungenlied, Beowulf, and the Northern Sagas.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about age, olderness

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Quote by Francis Bacon about olderness, old, age, man

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about happiness, age, olderness, moment, life

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Quote by Francis Bacon about olderness, man, age, old

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Quote by Victoria Abril about age, olderness, real estate, contentment

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about olderness, age, old, contentment

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about age, olderness, day, man, life

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Quote by Russell Baker about fashion, love, age, olderness

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Quote by Joseph Addison about weakness, people, age, olderness, world, man

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Quote by Joseph Addison about immortality, celebrity, stars, youth, sun, age, olderness, nature

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Quote by Joseph Addison about olderness, age, old, man

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Quote by Aeschylus about wisdom, age, olderness, things, time

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

Quote by Andre Agassi about sport, career, age, olderness, contentment

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Quote by Bruce Barton about modesty, absolute, age, olderness, sex, man

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful...

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about olderness, youth, success, age, old, work, day, time, life, contentment

To form another person's opinion, you are its mirror, and to raise a halfway decent human being on this planet is a pretty hard job in this day and age.

Quote by Kim Basinger about opinion, age, olderness, people, human imperfections, being, day, contentment

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about children, age, olderness

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Quote by Aristotel about shame, olderness, youth, age, old