Age Quotes

• "Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "When an old gentlemen waggles his head and says: "Ah, so I thought when I was your age," it is not thought an answer at all, if the young man retorts: "My venerable sir, so I shall most probably think when I am yours." And yet the one is as good as the other."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth
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• "We are always the same age inside."
  By: Gertrude Stein
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• "How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!"
  By: Leszczynski Stanislaus ("Stanislaus I")
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• "When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not the decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."
  By: Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)
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• "It is difficult to grow old gracefully."
  By: Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)
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• "The careful cold hath nipt my rugged rind, And in my face deep furrows eld hath plight; My head bespren with hoary frost I find, And by mine eye the crow his claw doth bright; Delight is laid abed, and pleasure past; No sun now shines, clouds have all overcast."
  By: Edmund Spenser
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• "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William,--a hearty old man: Now tell me the reason, I pray.""
  By: Robert Southey, The Old Man's Comforts, and how he Gained Them
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• "The vices of old age have the stiffness of it, too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be found much greater."
  By: Bishop Robert South
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• "An old man in a house is a good sign in a house."
  By: attributed to Ben Sira (Syra)
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• "Though sinking in decrepit age, he prematurely falls whose memory records no benefit conferred on him by man. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously."
  By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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• "The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
  By: George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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• "Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world."
  By: William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (Titus at I, i)
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