Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful."
Elders quotes
Elders
12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"The playthings of our elders are called business."
Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!""
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will."
Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"A young man not yet, an elder man not at all."
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