Character Quote by Erle Stanley Gardner

“We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals.”

— Keith Richards

“Just remember, moral certainty is a luxury of the very young and the very old.”

— P.S. Duffy

“I daresay with age comes the inclination not to care much what others think.”

— Lorraine Heath

“I suppose all societies adapt their morals to their needs.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Our morals came from our mothers ... we don't notice them when we were babies ... but they were eventually embedded ... bit by…

— Joey Lawsin

“When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we’d do a…

— Sherwood Smith

“Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had…

— T.M. Williams

“The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.”

— Oscar Wilde

“If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I didn’t know what being young had to do with it. It seemed to me that older people could do foolish things just as…

— Catherine M. Wilson