“Every man lives only this present time, which is an indivisible point, and all the rest of his life is either past or it is uncertain.”
Marcus Aurelius
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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.
“Let death take me planting my cabbages.”
Michel de Montaigne
WorkDeath
“In growing old we become more foolish and more wise.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
WisdomFunny
“Old fools are more foolish than young fools.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
FunnyOld Age
“When I come to be old: Not to marry a young woman. Not to keep young company unless they really desire it. Not to be peevish, or morose, or suspicious.”
Jonathan Swift
FunnyOld Age
“Something remains for us to do or dare; even the oldest tree some fruit may bear.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
MotivationNever Too Late
“Young, all lay in dispute; I shall know, being old.”
Robert Browning
WisdomExperience
“I will drink life to the lees.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
LifeAdventure
“Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me!”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Old AgePeace
“That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered, acts of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth
KindnessLegacy
“So, we'll go no more a roving so late into the night, though the heart be still as loving, and the moon be still as bright.”
Lord Byron
MemoriesLove
“Dew-drops are the gems of morning, but the tears of mournful eve!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
YouthOld Age
“When old age shall this generation waste, thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe than ours, a friend to man.”
John Keats
LegacyArt
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.”
Thomas Gray
YouthInnocence
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying.”
Robert Herrick
YouthTime
“But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”
Andrew Marvell
TimeGrowing Old
“Youth is wholly experimental.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
YouthExperience
“I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.”
Henry David Thoreau
AdviceFunny
"In my youth," Father William replied to his son, "I feared it might injure the brain; but, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, why, I do it again and again."
Lewis Carroll
FunnyOld Age
“Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.”
Samuel Ullman
WonderSpirit
“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”
Samuel Ullman
HopeMindset
“Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, pleas'd with a rattle, tickl'd with a straw.”
Alexander Pope
ChildhoodLife Stages
“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”
Horace
Carpe DiemTime
“I enjoy good health; I am happy in what is around me, yet I assure you I am ripe for leaving all, this year, this day, this hour.”
Thomas Jefferson
ContentmentOld Age
“But he who lives a hundred years, vicious and unrestrained, a life of one day is better if a man is virtuous and reflecting.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
VirtueLife