Elder/people

Famous quotes containing the words elder and/or people:

    As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)