Hesketh Pearson Quotes
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.
Pearson, Hesketh. Modern Men and Mummers. George Allen & Unwin, 1921, p. 116.
The business and upper class establishment of California was terrified that Sinclair, a socialist, might become governor. They spent more money defeating Sinclair than had been spent in any election before including the Presidency and the record lasted for several more years. In many communities, local authorities would not allow large crowds to assemble to hear Sinclair, and he had been physically threatened many times, Los Angeles was one of the places where the police were trying to intimidate Sinclair and his supporters.
What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”
There is a macho aspect to most males, even older and more mature men.
Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson was a British actor, theatre director and writer. He is known mainly for his popular biographies; they made him the leading British biographer of his time, in terms of commercial success.
