Age Quotes

• "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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• "Remember that some of the brightest drops in the chalice of life may still remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kind Providence gives us to drink, though near the bottom of the cup, may, as is said of the draught of the Roman of old, have at the very bottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls."
  By: W.A. Newman
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• "The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy."
  By: Gerard de Nerval
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• "So Life's year begins and closes; Days, though short'ning, still can shine; What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
  By: Thomas Moore, Spring and Autumn
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• "Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it."
  By: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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• "Age, when it does not harden the heart and sour the temper, naturally returns to the milky disposition of infancy. Time has the same effect upon the mind as on the face. The pre-dominant passion, the strongest feature, becomes more conspicuous from the others retiring."
  By: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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• "So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd not harshly pluck'd, for death mature."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 535)
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• "A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."
  By: Mignon McLaughlin
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• "Set is the sun of my years; And over a few poor ashes, I sit in my darkness and tears."
  By: Gerald Massey, A Wail
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• "When you try to conceal your wrinkles, Polla, with paste made from beans, you deceive yourself, not me. Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised. A fault concealed is presumed to be great."
  By: Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. III, ep. 42)
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• "What find you better or more honorable than age? . . . Take the preeminence of it in everything;--in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree."
  By: Shackerley Marmion (Shakerley Marmion), Antiquary (act II, sc. 1)
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• "Tell me what you find better, or more honorable than age. Is not wisdom entailed upon it? Take the pre-eminence of it in everything; and in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree."
  By: Shackerley Marmion (Shakerley Marmion)
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• "The ages roll Forward; and forward with them, draw my soul Into time's infinite sea. And to be glad, or sad, I care no more; But to have done, and to have been, before I cease to do and be."
  By: Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), The Wanderer (bk. IV, A Confession and Apology, st. 9)
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• "Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave."
  By: James Russell Lowell
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