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

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

Cicero

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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 cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Voltaire

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

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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