Logo
Quote by Thomas Carlyle
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men fr

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Class
Author
Thomas Carlyle
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. – Julie Burchill

Category:
Age

Ive lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point. – Liz Phair

Category:
Age

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it dont matter. – Satchel Paige

Category:
Age

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. – Erma Bombeck

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals. – Charles M. Crowe

Category:
Easter

Character… is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. – Charles Wilson

Category:
Peace

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. – Charles Dickens

Category:
Baby, Babies

Ive done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and Ive found no evidence that it brings happiness. – Mary McCormack

Category:
Happiness