Famous quotes containing the words older and/or persons:
“If the older generation are not upright, the young will not respect them.”
—Chinese proverb.
“A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)