Golden Age Quotes

• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  William Shakespeare

  Happy Birthday, Afterlife, Age

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• It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Doors, Dragons

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

  Paul Signac

  Lying, Age, Golden

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• When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

  Michael Winterbottom

  Age, Golden, Enthusiastic

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• This is the golden age of grotesque.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Media, Age

  Song: The Golden Age Of Grotesque, 2003

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• The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

  Randall Jarrell

  Birthday, Yellow, People

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Foundation, Credit

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.243

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• The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Men, People

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• Where children are, there is the golden age.

  Novalis

  Children, Age, Literature

  Novalis (1960). “Hymns to the night: and other selected writings”

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• I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Years, Two

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.243

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• I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

  Patti Smith

  Flower, Greatness, Age

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• You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

  Alexander Payne

  Age, Golden, Knows

  "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Age, May, Golden

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• I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Disappointment, Thinking, People

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• It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

  Bill Mumy

  Media, Age, Golden

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• Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…”, p.823, e-artnow

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• In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.

  Bob Kane

  Age, Golden

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• Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Iron, Age

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• There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

  Sonny Rollins

  Creating Things, Long, Age

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• Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

  John Lahr

  Dream, Car, Age

  "Turf Wars". www.newyorker.com. March 30, 2009.

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• Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.

  Charles Elachi

  Adventure, Space, Age

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• Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.

  Helen Keller

  Relationship, Soulmate, Fall

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• The Golden Age was never the present age.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Age, Golden

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, War, Teaching

  "Why I Am Not a Christian".

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• But it is hard to resist the feeling that 70th was some kind of golden age.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Feelings, Age, Golden

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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