Age Quote by Jonathan Swift

The fickle populace always change with the prince.

— Claudius Claudianus

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction:…

— Denis Diderot

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,…

— Michel de Montaigne

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“For since a Prince by birth has fewer occasions and less need to give offence, he ought to be better loved, and will naturally…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“But in new Princedoms difficulties abound. And, first, if the Princedom be not wholly new, but joined on to the ancient dominions of the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

— Charles Spurgeon

“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very…

— Immanuel Kant

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying…

— Mary Baker Eddy

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson