Age Quote by Rutherford B. Hayes

Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

— Amy Dickinson

Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we…

— Joan D. Chittister

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

— Thomas Browne

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error…

— Thomas Merton

No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the…

— Flora Thompson

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages isImbecility:…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is always behind the age

— Oscar Wilde

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age…

— John Mortimer

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned…

— Flannery O'Connor