Age Quotes

• "Age steals away all things, even the mind."
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
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• "Age bears away with it all things, even the powers of the mind."
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
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• "For Age with stealing steps Hath clawed me with his crutch."
  By: Lord Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden, The Aged Lover Renounceth Love
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• "For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life. [Lat., Annus enim octogesimus admonet me, ut sarcinas colligam, antequam proficisvare vita.]"
  By: Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica (I, 1)
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• "Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart."
  By: Marguerite de Valois
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• "Age too shines out; and, garrulous, recounts the feats of youth."
  By: James Thomson (1), Seasons--Autumn (l. 1,231)
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• "O good gray head which all men knew."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, On the Death of the Duke of Wellington (st. 4)
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• "There cannot live a more happy creature than an ill-natured old man who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others."
  By: Sir William Temple
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• "Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavour. [Lat., Vetera semper in laude, presentia in fastidio.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), De Oratoribus (18)
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• "We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (II, 88)
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• "I swear she's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day."
  By: Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (dialogue I)
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• "No wise man ever wished to be younger."
  By: Jonathan Swift
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• "I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth."
  By: Jonathan Swift
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• "Years do not make sages; they only make old men."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "The smile upon the old man's lip, like the last rays of the setting sun, pierces the heart with a sweet and sad emotion. There is still a ray, there is still a smile; but they may be the last."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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