“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”

— Oscar Wilde , A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

Steve Perry (1947) American writer

Source: The Tejano Conflict (2014), Chapter 4

“I think about my father being called 'boy,' my uncle being called 'boy,' my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called 'boy.' So I questioned myself: 'What does a black man have to do before he's given the respect as a man?' So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody's mouth is 'Mr.”

Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler

That's a sign of respect that my father didn't get, that my brother didn't get, that my mother didn't get.
Attributed

“It seemed as if she had given these treasures and left him alone — to use them or lose them, apply them or misapply them, according to his own choice. That is all we can do with children, when they grow into big children, old enough to distinguish between right and wrong, and too old to be forced to do either.”

Dinah Craik book The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak

Ch 7
The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak (1875)

“But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

“But there is still a considerable difference between a failure to do enough that is right and a determination to do much that is wrong.”

John Kenneth Galbraith book The Great Crash, 1929

Chapter IX https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Cause and Consequence, Section VIII, p 192
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Between Planets

Source: Between Planets

“Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.”

Poul Anderson book There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 126)

“When he is forsaken,
Withered and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?”

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer

Spring it is cheery; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“You are getting too old for this." "A man is as old as he feels, woman!" "And how old do you feel?”

David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate

"About ninety."
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 15

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