When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse. — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar.… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse. — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football. — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots. — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches. — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which had not been obvious… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
![“[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.” quote by Hesketh Pearson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/076/hesketh-pearson-35291_age_d-on-t-grow-old-with-age-comes-caution-w_14010.jpg)
