We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere…

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's…

— Merle Haggard

“And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea…

— Aldous Huxley

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

— Lydia M. Child

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

— Virginia Woolf

When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always some condescension…

— Rumaan Alam

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

— Verity Stob

“There is no point in fighting condescension with condescension.”

— Amitava Kumar

Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups…

— Larry Elder

The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner,…

— Lord Chesterfield

...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

— Francis of Assisi

the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is…

— Isak Dinesen