Our age is really up to nothing better than sweeping out the gutters—a scavenger age. Might it but do that well! It is the indispensable beginning of all. Carlyle.
Our age knows nothing but reactions, and 10 leaps from one extreme to another. Niebuhr.
Our ambiguous dissipating education awakens wishes when it should be animating tendencies; instead of forwarding our real capacities, it turns our efforts towards objects which are frequently discordant with the mind that aims at them. Goethe.
Our ancestors are very good kind o' folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. Sheridan.
Our attachment to every object around us increases, in general, from the length of our acquaintance with it. Goldsmith.
Our best history is still poetry. Emerson.
Our best resolutions are frail when opposed 15 to our predominant inclinations. Scott.
Our best thoughts come from others. Emerson.
Our better mind / Is as a Sunday's garment, then put on / When we have nought to do; but at our work / We wear a worse for thrift. Crowe.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Wordsworth.