Blind Quote by William Plomer

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit, he is…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Why were people always driven to be something they were not, spending their early years wanting to look older and their later years striving…

— Rachel Abbott

“All three are hip-deep in midlife, when the eyes go and the waistline spreads and the city on the hill that shone so brightly…

— Mary McNamara

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

— William Shakespeare

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was…

— Tennessee Williams

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

— Muhammad Ali

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

— William Shakespeare

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

— Orhan Pamuk

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise…

— Thomas Carlyle

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

— Horace Greeley

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero