Older People

Famous quotes containing the words older people, older and/or people:

    The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
    Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people reading for the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)