"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified……" — Henry David Thoreau
"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost."
More Age Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood