Age Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

— H. L. Mencken

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

— Moliere

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

— Madame de Stael

If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon…

— Johnny Hunt

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon…

— Caspar David Friedrich

Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then…

— Dwight L. Moody

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

— William Shakespeare

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

— Robert Creeley

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

— Samuel Adams

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you get to the age of accountability you have to reaffirm your faith.

— Anita Bryant

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

— Kathy Mattea