Age Quote by Jonathan Swift

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

— Benjamin Franklin

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it

— Benjamin Franklin

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

— Moon Unit Zappa

The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

— Fanny Burney

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

— Anthony Trollope

If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're…

— Alastair Campbell

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

— William Shakespeare

“If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I’ld have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR. How’s that? FOOL. Thou shouldst not have…

— William Shakespeare

“When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.”

— Charlie Jane Anders

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

— Robert Jordan

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense…

— W. Somerset Maugham