“Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.”
The Bible (Proverbs 17:6)
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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 said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.”
The Bible (Job 32:7)
WisdomExperience
“Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.”
The Bible (Job 32:9)
WisdomJudgment
“I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”
The Bible (Psalm 37:25)
FaithOld Age
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 13:11)
Growing UpMaturity
“Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”
The Bible (2 Corinthians 4:16)
SpiritFaith
“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
The Bible (Isaiah 40:31)
StrengthFaith
“Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
DisciplineYouth
“A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
LearningGrowing Old
“For certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead; therefore over the inevitable thou shouldst not grieve.”
Bhagavad Gita
AcceptanceSpirituality
“When the age is in, the wit is out.”
William Shakespeare
FunnyOld Age
“For you yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.”
William Shakespeare
FunnyYouth
“You that are old consider not the capacities of us that are young.”
William Shakespeare
YouthGenerations
“O, love's best habit is in seeming trust, and age in love loves not to have years told.”
William Shakespeare
LoveBirthday
“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.”
Mark Twain
FunnyMemory
“The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyYouth
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyWomen
“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations.”
Oscar Wilde
LifeYouth
“Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SpiritYouth
“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
FunnyGrowing Old
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
Benjamin Franklin
HealthHabits
“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”
Benjamin Franklin
LifeWisdom
“It is with life as it is with a play - it matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is.”
Seneca
LifePurpose
“Rashness is the note of youth, prudence of old age.”
Cicero
YouthWisdom
“Short then is the time which every man lives; and small the nook of the earth where he lives.”
Marcus Aurelius
LifeTime