Age Quotes

• "Nothing is more dishonourable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age. [Lat., Nihil turpius est, quam grandis natu senex, qui nullum aliud habet argumentum, quo se probet diu vixisse, praeter aetatum.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Tranquillitate Animi (III, 8)
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• "There is nothing more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to produce as a proof that he has lived long except his years."
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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• "Old friends are best. King James us'd to call for his Old Shoes, they were easiest for his Feet."
  By: John Selden, Table Talk--Friends
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• "On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth; Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (canto I, pt. XXI)
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• "Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby (canto V, st. 1)
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• "Thus pleasures fade away; Youth, talents, beauty, thus decay, And leave us dark, forlorn, and gray."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, Marmiom (introduction to canto II, st. 7)
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• "Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in my eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing--yes,-- I'm growing old."
  By: John Godfrey Saxe, I'm Growing Old
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• "O, roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me, Grown old before my time."
  By: Christina Georgina Rossetti, Song (st. 1)
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• "Age has now Stamped with its signet that ingenuous brow."
  By: Samuel Rogers, Human Life
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• "What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys but that our hopes cease. [Das Alter ist nicht trube weil darin unsere Freuden, sondern weil unsere Hoffnungen aufhoren.]"
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul), Titan (zykel 34)
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• "Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of our enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect, of eternity before us."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "Old men's lives are lengthened shadows; their evening sun falls coldly on the earth, but the shadows all point to the morning."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as approach the end."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world, and the old man lives among graves."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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