Famous quotes containing the words age and/or political:
“A good old man, sir, he will be talking; as they say, “When the age is in, the wit is out.””
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)