Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Age
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.
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Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
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The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
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The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.
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Benjamin Disraeli
- Born: December 21, 1804
- Died: April 19, 1881
- Occupation: Former Leader of the House of Commons
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