Age Quote by Donald O. Clifton

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be…

— A. P. Herbert

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of…

— Andre Gide

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

— Urban Meyer

“We have reared a generation of incredibly bright young people, who have been fed a diet of instant gratification, seasoned with self-absorbed heroes who…

— Rick Rigsby

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

— B. Carroll Reece

“There is nothing so annoying as to be fairly rich, of a fairly good family, pleasing presence, average education, to be "not stupid," kindhearted,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm just too smart and I'm too well-rounded.

— Al Iaquinta

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious.…

— Samuel Johnson