Elder

Famous quotes containing the word elder:

“Younger sisters are almost different beings from elder ones, but thank God it is quite and unaffectedly without repining or envy that I see my elder sister gad about and visit, etc.—when I rest at home.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)

“Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.”
—Pliny The Elder (23–79)

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