Age Quotes

• "As we grow old we become more foolish and more wise."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "I feel I am growing old for want of somebody to tell me that I am looking as young as ever. Charming falsehood! There is a vast deal of vital air loving words."
  By: Walter Savage Landor
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• "We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. [Fr., L'on espere de vieillir, et l'on craint la vieillesse; l'on aime la vie et l'on fuit la mort.]"
  By: Jean de la Bruyere, Les Caracteres (XI)
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• "We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]"
  By: Jean de la Bruyere, Les Caracteres (XI)
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• "Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight."
  By: Louis Kossuth
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• "Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him."
  By: Charles Kingsley
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• "The evening of life brings with it its lamps."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 308)
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• "There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Age is rarely despised but when it is contemptible."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast."
  By: Edgar Watson Howe
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• "Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters."
  By: Arsene Houssaye
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