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

Quote by Randall Jarrell

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other...

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with...

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with...

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they...

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they...

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they...

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they...

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have...

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have...

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every...

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.

Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.

In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils,...

In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils,...

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it...

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it...

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed...

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at...

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at...

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly...

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly...

A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink.

A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink.