“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”
Rabindranath Tagore
WisdomGrey Hair
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · AGE
Age Quotes
Read 200 of the best age quotes about growing older, youth, wisdom and old age from Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Confucius and more.
“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”
Mark Twain
OptimismFunny
“Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old AgeNature
“The essence of age is intellect.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
IntellectWisdom
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ExperienceYears
“Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when they are going off.”
Seneca
Old AgeHappiness
“For no one is so old as not to think that he may live a year.”
Cicero
HopeOld Age
“We must stand up against old age, and its drawbacks must be compensated by taking pains.”
Cicero
StrengthOld Age
“Certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many.”
Plato
PeaceFreedom
“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
Michel de Montaigne
MindWrinkles
“Few people know how to be old.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
Old AgeWisdom
“Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
AdviceFunny
“It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.”
Samuel Johnson
MindLearning
“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
PositiveBirthday
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.”
Benjamin Disraeli
Life StagesRegret
“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”
Benjamin Disraeli
YouthGreatness
“Youth, large, lusty, loving - youth full of grace, force, fascination, do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”
Walt Whitman
YouthOld Age
“Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.”
Henry David Thoreau
ExperienceYouth
“Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.”
Francis Bacon
YouthJudgment
“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
Francis Bacon
FriendshipOld Age
“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ChildhoodSpirit
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
Victor Hugo
GraceHappiness
“The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.”
The Bible (Proverbs 20:29)
StrengthGrey Hair
“The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.”
The Bible (Proverbs 16:31)
Grey HairHonour
“With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.”
The Bible (Job 12:12)
WisdomOld Age