Age Quotes

• "Slow-consuming age."
  By: Thomas Gray, Ode to a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 9)
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• "At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
  By: Henry Grattan
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• "Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (l. 251)
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• "O blest retirement! friend to life's decline-- Retreats from care, that never must be mine How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease!"
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 97)
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• "They say women and music should never be dated."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (act III)
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• "I love everything that's old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (act I, sc. 1)
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• "Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?"
  By: Oliver Goldsmith
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• "Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith
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• "Old age is courteous--no one more: For time after time he knocks at the door. But nobody says, "Walk in, sir, pray!" Yet turns he not from the door away, But lifts the latch, and enters with speed, And then tyeh cry, "A cool one, indeed.""
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Old Age
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• "Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust--Vorspiel auf dem Theater (l. 180)
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• "We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own defects."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "Age makes us not childish, as some say; it finds us still true children."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "She may very well pass for forty-three, In the dusk with a light behind her."
  By: Sir William Schwenk Gilbert, Trial by Jury
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• "Remote from cities liv'd a Swain, Unvex'd with all the cares of gain; His head was silver'd o'er with age, And long experience made him sage."
  By: John Gay, Fables--The Shepherd and the Philosopher (part I)
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