Famous quotes containing the word older:
“We are older by faith than by experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Tailors workthe finishing of mens outside garmentswas the trade learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s], and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.”
—Lucy Larcom (18241893)
“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 (18651946)
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