Age Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“The Hero of Ages shall be not a man, but a force. No nation may claim him, no woman shall keep him, and no…

— Brandon Sanderson

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior…

— Robert Bellarmine

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

— Anonymous

“Who ignores not weak foe, with intellect waits for his opportunity, Who displays in season ability, with the stronger desires no hostility; Grieves not…

— Munindra Misra

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

— Joseph Joubert

“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Anonymous

“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

— H. L. Mencken

There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries…

— Edward Young

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

— John Peter Zenger

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

— Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm