Age Quotes

• "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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• "If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
  By: James Abram Garfield
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• "Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age."
  By: James Anthony Froude
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• "All would live long; but none would be old."
  By: Benjamin Franklin
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• "We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude--Old Age
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• "Nature abhors the old."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--Circles
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• "We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "As you are old and reverend, you should be wise."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "White hairs are the crests of foam which cover the sea after the tempest."
  By: Elizabeth, nee Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise (used ps Carmen Sylva)
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• "Age either transfigures or petrifies."
  By: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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• "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
  By: Bob Dylan (f/k/a Robert Allen Zimmerman), My Back Pages, a song
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• "Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still."
  By: John Dryden, Oedipus (act IV, sc. 1)
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• "His hair just grizzled As in a green old age."
  By: John Dryden, Oedipus (act III, sc. I)
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• "These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution."
  By: John Dryden
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• "No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face; Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape; This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape."
  By: Dr. John Donne, Elegy IX--The Autumnal
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