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

Michel de Montaigne

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Publilius Syrus

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

Cicero

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

John Donne

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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’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

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Alfred Nobel

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

James Joyce

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

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

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein