Age Quote by Jonathan Swift

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

— Jonathan Swift

Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“The times change, but the nature of men does not. Such men ... will not find our new age more favorable, and they will…

— Michael Ennis

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

— Oscar Wilde

“Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got the right on their…

— Stephen King

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their…

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame;…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have…

— George Santayana

Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and…

— Anonymous

The evil that men do these days supprises even the devil.

— Ace Kid

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

— Honore de Balzac

“It is not in the nature of man--nor of any living entity--to start out by giving up, by spitting in one's own face and…

— Ayn Rand