#Age Quotes

“Nor age so eat up my invention.”

“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?”

“Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.”

“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.”

“The old folk, time's doting chronicles.”

“There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.”

“You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame”

“Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.”

“For youth no less becomesThe light and careless livery that it wears,Than settled age his sables, and his weedsImporting health and graveness.”

“My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.”

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.”

“My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.”

“Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.”

“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”

“Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.”

“There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.”

“Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.”

“Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.”

“Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.”

“I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,Too far in years to be a pupil now.”

“For you and I are past our dancing days.”

“Only to youth will spring be spring.”

“Wherever there is power there is age.”

“I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.”

“The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.”

“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!”

“Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.”

“Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.”

“Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,Pass'd over to the end they were created,Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.Ah, what a life were this!”

“He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.”

“Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.”

“As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.”

“When the age is in, the wit is out”

“Old men make war, young men fight and die”

“Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again.”

“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”

“Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.”

“When I was asked to make the film, I decided that it was like taking on a new career at the age of sixty-eight. I've never acted before. And taking direction is not something I'm very good at. I've always known who I am and what I was going to do, and I've always just done it.”

“Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”

“Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.”

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”

“Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.”

“Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.”

“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”

“That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.”

“Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.”

“I would that I were an old beggarRolling a blind pearl eye,For he cannot see my ladyGo gallivanting by.”

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.”

“All that I have said and done,Now that I am old and ill,Turns into a question tillI lie awake night after nightAnd never get the answers right.”

“I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.”