Age Quotes

• "One's age should be tranquil, as one's childhood should be playful; hard work, at either extremity of human existence, seems to me out of place; the morning and the evening should be alike cool and peaceful; at midday the sun may burn, and men may labor under it."
  By: Thomas Arnold
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• "What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone."
  By: Matthew Arnold, Growing Old
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• "Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play."
  By: John Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health (bk. II, l. 484)
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• "Our life much resembles wine: when there is only a little remaining, it becomes vinegar; for all the ills of human nature crowd to old age as if it were a workshop."
  By: Antiphanes of Macedonia
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• "Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,-- Toil without recompense, tears all in vain-- Take them and give me my childhood again."
  By: Elizabeth Akers Allen ("Florence Percy")
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• "The surest sign of age is loneliness. While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot be old, whatever his years may be."
  By: Amos Bronson Alcott
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• "You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail."
  By: attributed to Hank Aaron
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• "In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile."
  By: Elinor Holt Wylie, Let No Charitable Hope
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• "Men become old, but they never become good."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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• "How the hell should I know? Most of the people my age are dead."
  By: Casey Stengel (Charles Dillon Stengel), on the subject of his age
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• "I shall not grow conservative with age."
  By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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• "I grow old ever learning many things."
  By: Solon
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• "The oldest hath borne most; we that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Edgar at V, iii)
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• "The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills."
  By: Richard John Needham
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• "Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to."
  By: Donald Justice, Men at Forty
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• "Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do."
  By: Richard Hughes
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