Ages

Famous quotes containing the word ages:

“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;”
—Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)