Age Quotes

• "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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• "Age and sufferings had already marked out the first incisions for death, so that he required but little effort to cut her down; for it is with men as with trees, they are notched long before felling, that their life-sap may flow out."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "As sailing into port is a happier thing than the voyage, so is age happier, than youth; that is, when the voyage from youth is made with Christ at the helm."
  By: John Pulsford
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• "Behold where age's wretched victim lies See his head trembling, and his half clos'd eyes, Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves; To broken sleep his remnant sense he gives, And only by his pains, awaking, finds he lives."
  By: Matthew Prior
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• "Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
  By: Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings (ch. 1)
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• "Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye! And keep awhile one parent from the sky."
  By: Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires (l. 408)
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• "Why will you break the Sabbath of my days? Now sick alike of Envy and of Praise."
  By: Alexander Pope, First Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 3)
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• "Age and want sit smiling at the gate."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!--Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appeared to be best in these four things."
  By: Melchior de Polignam, Floresta Espanola de Aphothegmas o Sentencias, etc. (II, 1, 20)
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• "When a man reaches the last stage of life,--without senses or mentality--they say that he has grown a child again. [Lat., Senex cum extemplo est, jam nec sentit, nec sapit; Ajunt solere eum rursum repuerascere.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Mercator (II, 2, 24)
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• "Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality."
  By: Peter Pindar (pseudonym of Dr. John Wolcot) (Wolcott)
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• "Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled."
  By: Francesco Petrarch, To Laura in Death (sonnet LXXXII)
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• "Old age brings us to know the value of the blessings which we have enjoyed, and it brings us also to a very thankful perception of those which yet remain. Is a man advanced in life? The ease of a single day, the rest of a single night, are gifts which may be subjects of gratitude to God."
  By: William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa
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• "We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear."
  By: James Oppenheim, New Year's Eve
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• "Down his neck his reverend lockes In comelye curles did wave; And on his aged temples grewe The blossomes of the grave."
  By: Old Ballad
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• "A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play."
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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