Older Persons

Famous quotes containing the words older and/or persons:

    It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)