Elder

Famous quotes containing the word elder:

“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)

“Carthage must be destroyed.
[Delenda est Carthago.]”
—Marcus Porcius Cato The Elder (234–149 B.C.)

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