Famous Age Quotes



Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Ambrose Bierce

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Publilius Syrus

Age is a reminder to be gentle with ourselves, to practice self-care, and to listen to the needs of our bodies and minds.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

Age is a reflection of the love and laughter we've shared, the tears we've shed, and the obstacles we've overcome.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Michel de Montaigne

As we age, we learn to appreciate the simple joys of life and find contentment in the present moment.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

William Shakespeare

With age comes the freedom to be your authentic self and let go of societal expectations.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Francis Bacon

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Voltaire

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.

Edmund Burke

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Voltaire

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

George Eliot

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Alfred Nobel

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Theodore Roosevelt

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Oscar Wilde

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Virginia Woolf

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Joyce

Four specters haunt the Poor / Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

David Lloyd George

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Oscar Wilde

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Ambrose Bierce

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