Age Quotes

• "At your age, The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "And his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "An old man in his rudiments is a disgraceful object. It is for youth to acquire, and for age to apply. [Lat., Turpis et ridicula res est elementarius senex; juveni parandum, seni utendum est.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (XXXVI, 4)
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• "Old age is an incurable disease. [Lat., Senectus insanabilis morbus est.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CVIII, 29)
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• "Nothing is more dishonourable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age. [Lat., Nihil turpius est, quam grandis natu senex, qui nullum aliud habet argumentum, quo se probet diu vixisse, praeter aetatum.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Tranquillitate Animi (III, 8)
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• "There is nothing more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to produce as a proof that he has lived long except his years."
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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• "Old friends are best. King James us'd to call for his Old Shoes, they were easiest for his Feet."
  By: John Selden, Table Talk--Friends
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• "On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth; Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (canto I, pt. XXI)
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• "Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby (canto V, st. 1)
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• "Thus pleasures fade away; Youth, talents, beauty, thus decay, And leave us dark, forlorn, and gray."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, Marmiom (introduction to canto II, st. 7)
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• "Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in my eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing--yes,-- I'm growing old."
  By: John Godfrey Saxe, I'm Growing Old
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• "O, roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me, Grown old before my time."
  By: Christina Georgina Rossetti, Song (st. 1)
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• "Age has now Stamped with its signet that ingenuous brow."
  By: Samuel Rogers, Human Life
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• "What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys but that our hopes cease. [Das Alter ist nicht trube weil darin unsere Freuden, sondern weil unsere Hoffnungen aufhoren.]"
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul), Titan (zykel 34)
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• "Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of our enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect, of eternity before us."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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