The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke…

Quote by Bernard Mandeville

Topics: Age Quotes

He chopped up peppers, mixed them with vinegar and Avery Island salt, put the mixture...

He chopped up peppers, mixed them with vinegar and Avery Island salt, put the mixture...

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every...

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the...

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes...

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes...

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the...

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the...

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are...

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are...

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to...

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to...

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all...

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all...

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too...

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too...

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it...

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it...

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have...

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have...

How young can you die of old age?

How young can you die of old age?