Age Quotes

“The harvest of old age is the memory and rich store of blessings laid up in earlier life.”

Cicero

“Old age is an incurable disease.”

Seneca

“Every day ought to be regulated as if it closed the series, as if it rounded out and completed our existence.”

Seneca

“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”

Plato

“The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the well husbanding of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.”

Michel de Montaigne

“Old age is a tyrant which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“We arrive at the different ages of life quite new, and we are often without experience in spite of our age.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“What one wishes in youth, one has in abundance in old age.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

Victor Hugo

“A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The last of life, for which the first was made: our times are in His hand.”

Robert Browning

“Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; death closes all: but something ere the end, some work of noble note, may yet be done.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Come, my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“The Child is father of the Man.”

William Wordsworth

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book, and slowly read.”

W. B. Yeats

“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.”

W. B. Yeats

“Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial.”

Henry David Thoreau

"You are old, Father William," the young man said, "and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head - do you think, at your age, it is right?"

Lewis Carroll

“Life went a-maying with Nature, Hope, and Poesy, when I was young!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Our machines have now been running for seventy or eighty years, and we must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way.”

Thomas Jefferson

“As the dweller in the body findeth in the body childhood, youth and old age, so passeth he on to another body; the steadfast one grieveth not thereat.”

Bhagavad Gita

“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“A man is not an elder because his head is grey; his age may be ripe, but he is called 'Old-in-vain.'”

Buddha (Dhammapada)