Age Quote by Jonathan Swift

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?”

— Jeane Westin

“The New Prophets began to preach by torchlight as though the latter days had come. It was the younger Pliny, those many centuries ago,…

— R.A. Lafferty

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

— Francis Bacon

“beard framing a face that had started to show his age, weathered and lined from years”

— Richard Allibone

We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that…

— Eliza R. Snow

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

— Aldous Huxley

Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider…

— Frederick Soddy

“In the past men were handsome and great (now they are children and dwarfs), but this is merely one of the many facts that…

— Umberto Eco

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

— D. H. Lawrence

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

— Charles Caleb Colton