Age Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

— Mark Twain

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and…

— Robertson Davies

certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it…

— Erica Jong

There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have…

— Sebastian Lelio

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

— Umberto Eco

“The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas, which may become reassuring in the…

— Daniel Kahneman

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“Why should we celebrate These dead men more than the dying? It is not to ring the bell backward Nor is it an incantation…

— T.S. Eliot

“The young must grow old Whilst old ones grow older. And cowards will shrink As the bold grow bolder. Courage may blossom in quiet…

— Anonymous

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner…

— Russell Kirk