“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
The Bible (Proverbs 22:6)
ParentingOld 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.
“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
The Bible (Psalm 90:12)
WisdomTime
“Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.”
The Bible (Psalm 71:9)
FaithOld Age
“And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you.”
The Bible (Isaiah 46:4)
FaithGrey Hair
“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 12:1)
YouthFaith
“Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man.”
The Bible (Leviticus 19:32)
RespectElders
“They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.”
The Bible (Psalm 92:14)
Old AgeBlessings
“Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 11:9)
YouthJoy
“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
The Bible (1 Timothy 4:12)
YouthExample
“O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.”
Kabir
LifeSpirituality
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
William Shakespeare
Life StagesLife
“Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
William Shakespeare
Old AgeLife Stages
“And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.”
William Shakespeare
FunnyTime
“I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less.”
William Shakespeare
Old AgeHonesty
“That time of year thou mayst in me behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold.”
William Shakespeare
Old AgeSeasons
“When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, and dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field.”
William Shakespeare
BeautyWrinkles
“We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.”
William Shakespeare
MemoriesFriendship
“It is time to be old, to take in sail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old AgeAcceptance
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain
LifeFunny
“I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.”
Mark Twain
FunnyBirthday
“Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.”
Benjamin Franklin
DeathFunny
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.”
Benjamin Franklin
TimeLife
“I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.”
Benjamin Franklin
FaithExperience
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyWisdom
“Youth! There is nothing like it. It's absurd to talk of the ignorance of youth.”
Oscar Wilde
Youth