Age Quote by Tacitus

“My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and…

— James Lee Burke

This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

— John Wolcot

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such…

— Christopher Gadsden

Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades.

— Onuh Justus Izuchukwu

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

— B. Carroll Reece

“One of the gifts that comes with age is an appreciation for some of the more simple, more commonplace things that seem mundane earlier…

— Priscilla Shirer

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

— Anonymous

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old…

— Lyman Abbott

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

— William Wordsworth

Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of…

— Peter Julian Eymard