“Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty.”
William Shakespeare
StrengthOld Age
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.
“Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly.”
William Shakespeare
Old AgeKindness
“My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood.”
William Shakespeare
YouthMemories
“Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, youth's a stuff will not endure.”
William Shakespeare
YouthLove
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.”
William Shakespeare
BeautyLove
“I have lived long enough: my way of life is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf.”
William Shakespeare
Old AgeLife
“Spring still makes spring in the mind, when sixty years are told.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SpiritPositive
“Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old AgeHonesty
“Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, when each had numbered more than fourscore years.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
AchievementLearning
“Many foxes grow grey, but few grow good.”
Benjamin Franklin
CharacterGrey Hair
“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.”
Benjamin Franklin
FunnyMoney
“Old young and old long.”
Benjamin Franklin
WisdomLong Life
“The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awe-inspiring dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach.”
Mark Twain
BirthdayWisdom
“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
Oscar Wilde
YouthFunny
“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyWomen
“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyBirthday
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyYouth
“Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyLove
“Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason; their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.”
Jonathan Swift
FunnyOld Age
“The first years of man must make provision for the last.”
Samuel Johnson
PlanningFuture
“Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet.”
Francis Bacon
YouthAmbition
“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon.”
Francis Bacon
Old AgeCourage
“A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.”
Francis Bacon
TimeExperience
“For it is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment; in these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer, but is even richer.”
Cicero
WisdomCharacter
“Old men retain their intellects well enough, if only they keep their minds active and fully employed.”
Cicero
MindLearning