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Age Quotes
- "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) Age Quotes
- "Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "You see me here,--a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both!"
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "When, the age is in, the wit is out."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "These old fellows have
Their ingratitude in them hereditary;
Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows;
'Tis lack of kindly warmth, they are not kind,
And nature, as it grows toward earth,
Is fashion'd for the journey-dull and heavy."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "Nor age so eat up my invention."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "Mellowed by the stealing hours of time."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "Last scene of all, that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness, and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "His silver hairs
Will purchase us a good opinion,
And buy men's voices to commend our deeds;
It shall be said his judgment rul'd our hands;
Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,
But all be buried in his gravity."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "His cheek the map of days outworn."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
- "At your age,
The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,
And waits upon the judgment."
By: William Shakespeare Age Quotes
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