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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual.

The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual.

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil...

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil...

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender...

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender...

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black...

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black...

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds,...

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds,...

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.