Age Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill…

— Thomas Carlyle

Old men make wars that young men may die.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

When the old men fight, the young people die.

— Anne Fortier

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

— John Adams

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

— Auguste Rodin

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

— Philip Roth

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

— Samuel Johnson

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the…

— Leo Tolstoy

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

— Matthew Henry

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

— Chinua Achebe