Age Quotes

“Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.”

Hippocrates

“It is not the young man who should be thought happy, but an old man who has lived well.”

Epicurus

“I grow old ever learning many things.”

Solon

“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.”

Euripides

“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”

Bertrand Russell

“To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned what it means to begin.”

Martin Buber

“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Oh, to be seventy again!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The devil knows more because he is old than because he is the devil.”

Spanish Proverb

“Old age is itself a disease.”

Terence

“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying.”

Robert Herrick

“But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”

Andrew Marvell

“Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”

Alexander Pope

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”

Washington Irving

“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.”

“I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less.”

“The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awe-inspiring dignity.”

Mark Twain

“Youth is the one thing worth having.”

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”

“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.”

Thomas Edison

“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.”

George Burns

“The essence of age is intellect.”

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow