Age Quotes

• "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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• "It is not mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Nerissa at I, ii) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors (Egeon at V, i)
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• "Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, But they shall find awaked in such a kind Both strength of limb and policy of mind, Ability in means, and choice of friends, To quit me of them throughly."
  By: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato at IV, i)
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• "I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not."
  By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at V, iii)
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• "Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at IV, vii)
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• "O, sir, you are old; Nature in you stands on the very verge Of his confine."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Regan at II, iv)
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• "As you are old and reverend, should be wise."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Goneril at I, iv)
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• "Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig, when wilt thou leave fighting o' days and foining o' nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?"
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Doll at II, iv)
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• "Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of saltness of time in you; and I most humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverent care of your health."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Falstaff at I, ii)
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• "You cannot call it love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble And waits upon the judgment, and what judgment Would step from this to this?"
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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• "Happily he is the second time come to them for they say an old man is twice a child."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Rosencrantz at II, ii)
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• "What should we speak of When we are as old as you? When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how In this our pinching cave shall we discourse The freezing hours away?"
  By: William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Arviragus at III, iii)
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• "There is an old poor man Who after me hath many a weary step Limped in pure love. Till he be first sufficed, Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger, I will not touch a bit."
  By: William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Orlando at II, vii)
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• "Let me be your servant; Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly."
  By: William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Adam at II, iii)
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• "For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals ere we can effect them."
  By: William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at V, iii)
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