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Quote of the Day November 10, 2026

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

William James · Experience

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Christopher Hitchens

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Age

Christopher Hitchens

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Age

Desiderius Erasmus

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Age

J. B. Priestley

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Age

Randall Jarrell

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

Age

Liz Carpenter

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Age

William Feather

Women lie about their age men lie about their income.

Age

King Abdullah II

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

Age