“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”
Oscar Wilde
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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.
“I swear she's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.”
Jonathan Swift
FunnyBirthday
“Certainly it is good to compound employments of both; for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects of both.”
Francis Bacon
TeamworkGenerations
“The invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.”
Francis Bacon
YouthImagination
“As I like a young man in whom there is something of the old, so I like an old man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man, but he will never be an old man in mind.”
Cicero
SpiritMindset
“Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”
Cicero
RespectOld Age
“The crown of old age is influence.”
Cicero
InfluenceOld Age
“Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not reached the abrupt decline.”
Seneca
LifeHappiness
“The defects of the mind increase, like those of the face, with age.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
MindHonesty
“Age takes hold of us by surprise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
TimeGrowing Old
“It is too late! Ah, nothing is too late till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
MotivationNever Too Late
“Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LegacyInspiration
“Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”
Robert Browning
FaithCourage
“How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
PurposeMotivation
“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
William Wordsworth
StrengthMemories
“So was it when my life began; so is it now I am a man; so be it when I shall grow old, or let me die!”
William Wordsworth
SpiritNature
“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, and be alone on earth, as I am now.”
Lord Byron
LonelinessOld Age
“Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man.”
Lord Byron
Middle AgeFunny
“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”
Henry David Thoreau
DreamsMiddle Age
“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Growing OldFunny
“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
Washington Irving
CharacterTemper
“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
LifeGenerations
“For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”
Robert Louis Stevenson
YouthCourage
“When a man at forty is the object of dislike, he will always continue what he is.”
Confucius
CharacterMiddle Age
“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”
Confucius
YouthRespect