Age Quote by Lord Chesterfield

“The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the…

— Hannah Arendt

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In…

— Laozi

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

— Mason Cooley

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

— William Penn

“The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety. The abuse of it leads to the catechisms, an end to…

— Emil Cioran

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

— Sophie Swetchine

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what…

— Anonymous

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

— Michel de Montaigne

“it is always easy, as well as agreeable, for the the inferior ranks of mankind to claim a merit from the contempt of that…

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Francis Bacon