Age Quotes

• "We are always the same age inside."
  By: Gertrude Stein
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• "How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!"
  By: Leszczynski Stanislaus ("Stanislaus I")
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• "When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not the decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."
  By: Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)
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• "It is difficult to grow old gracefully."
  By: Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)
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• "The careful cold hath nipt my rugged rind, And in my face deep furrows eld hath plight; My head bespren with hoary frost I find, And by mine eye the crow his claw doth bright; Delight is laid abed, and pleasure past; No sun now shines, clouds have all overcast."
  By: Edmund Spenser
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• "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William,--a hearty old man: Now tell me the reason, I pray.""
  By: Robert Southey, The Old Man's Comforts, and how he Gained Them
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• "The vices of old age have the stiffness of it, too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be found much greater."
  By: Bishop Robert South
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• "An old man in a house is a good sign in a house."
  By: attributed to Ben Sira (Syra)
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• "Though sinking in decrepit age, he prematurely falls whose memory records no benefit conferred on him by man. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously."
  By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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• "The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
  By: George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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• "Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world."
  By: William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (Titus at I, i)
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• "It is not mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Nerissa at I, ii) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors (Egeon at V, i)
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• "Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, But they shall find awaked in such a kind Both strength of limb and policy of mind, Ability in means, and choice of friends, To quit me of them throughly."
  By: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato at IV, i)
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• "I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not."
  By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at V, iii)
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