Age Quotes

• "When you try to conceal your wrinkles, Polla, with paste made from beans, you deceive yourself, not me. Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised. A fault concealed is presumed to be great."
  By: Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. III, ep. 42)
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• "What find you better or more honorable than age? . . . Take the preeminence of it in everything;--in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree."
  By: Shackerley Marmion (Shakerley Marmion), Antiquary (act II, sc. 1)
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• "Tell me what you find better, or more honorable than age. Is not wisdom entailed upon it? Take the pre-eminence of it in everything; and in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree."
  By: Shackerley Marmion (Shakerley Marmion)
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• "The ages roll Forward; and forward with them, draw my soul Into time's infinite sea. And to be glad, or sad, I care no more; But to have done, and to have been, before I cease to do and be."
  By: Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), The Wanderer (bk. IV, A Confession and Apology, st. 9)
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• "Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave."
  By: James Russell Lowell
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• "And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Spanish Student (act III, sc. 3)
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• "The course of my long life hath reached at last, In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea, The common harbor, where must rendered be, Account of all the actions of the past."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Old Age
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• "For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus (l. 281)
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• "Whatever poet, orator, or sage May say of it, old age is still old age."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus (l. 264)
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• "How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus (l. 250)
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• "The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Canzone
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• "I venerate age; and I love not the man who can look, without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "As the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "Old age is a tyrant who forbids, upon pain of death, all the pleasures of youth. [Fr., La vieillesse est un tyran qui defend, sur peine de al vie, tous les plaisirs de la jeunesse.]"
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (461)
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• "Few persons know how to be old. [Fr., Peu de gens savent etre vieux.]"
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (448)
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• "Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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