Age Quotes

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Essays „Of Regimen of Health"

Age will not be defied.

Baruch Bernard 1870-1965

Age is only a number,a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience.He must use it.Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Binyon Laurence 1869-1943

„For the Fallen"

They shall grow not old,as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them,nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning.

We will remember them.

The Book of Common Prayer

Psalm 71 v.8

Cast me not away in the time of age:forsake me not when my strength failleth me.

Carroll Lewis(Charles L.Dodgson) 1832-1898

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

„You are old,Father William," the young man said,

„And your hair has become very white;

And yet you incessantly stand on your head-

Do you think,at your age,it is right?"

Carter Dyson

I feel age like an icicle down my back.

Chevalier Maurice 1888-1972

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Cicero Marcus Tullius 106-43 BC

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Defoe Daniel 1660-1731

Middle age is youth without its levity,

And age without decay.

Dryden John 1631-1700

Mithridates

For,Heaven be thanked,we live in such an age,

When no man dies for love,but on the stage.

Dunne Finley Peter 1867-1936

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

Journal

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it.

Estienne Henri 1531-1598

Les prémices

If youth knew;if age was able.

Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911

Princess Ida

To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minute- and I do!

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

So,lively brisk old fellow,don't let age get you down.White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

Jonson Ben c.1573-1637

„To the Memory of...William Shakespeare"

He was not of an age,but for all time!

Larkin Philip 1922-1985

„Dockery & Son"

Life is first boredom,then fear.

Whether or not we use it,it goes,

And leaves what something hidden from us chose,

And age,and then the only end of age.

Levin Bernard 1928-2004

The Pendulum Years

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as

when they are about to abandon it,so that fanaticism and intolerance reach

their most intense forms just before tolerance and mutual acceptance come

to be the natural order of things.

Mandelstam Osip 1892-1938

„The Age'(translated by C.M.Bowra)

The age is rocking the wave with human grief

to a golden beat,and an adder is breathing in time with it in the grass.

Matthews W.

In the world a man lives in his own age;in solitude in all ages.

Millay Edna St Vincent 1892-1950

„Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies"

Chilhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age

The child is grown,and puts away childish things.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Nobody that matters,that is.

More Age quotes..

Milton John 1608-1674

Sonnet 12 "I did but prompt the age"

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs

By the known rules of ancient liberty,

When straight a barbarous noise environs me

Of owls and cuckoos,asses,apes,and dogs.

Mitchell S.Weir 1829-1914

The arctic loneliness of age.

Montalvo Juan 1832-1889

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

Mordaunt Thomas Osbert 1730-1809

Sound,sound the clarion,fill the fife,

Throughout the sensual world proclaim,

One crowded hour of glorious life

Is worth an age without a name.

Moreau Jean

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

O'shaughnessy Arthur 1844-1881

„Ode"

For each age is dream that is dying,

Or one that is coming to birth.

Paine Thomas 1737-1809

The Right of Man

When,in countries that are called civilized,we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows,something must be wrong in the system of government.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

An Essay on Man

Scarfs,garters,gold,amuse his riper stage;

And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age:

Pleased with this bauble still,as that before;

Till tired he sleep,and life's poor play is o'er!

Pound Ezra 1885-1972

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

The age demanded an image

Of its accelerated grimace,

Something for the modern stage,

Not,at any rate,an Attic grace;

Not,not certainly,the obscure reveries

Of the inward gaze;

Better mendacities

Than the classics in paraphrase!

Priestley J.B.1894-1984

One of the delights known to age,and beyond the grasp of youth,is that of „not going".

Runes Dagobert

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth,but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Antony and Cleopatra

Age cannot wither her,nor custom stale

Her infinite variety;other women cloy

The appetites they feed,but she makes hungry

Where most she satisfied.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Macbeth

I have lived long enough:my way of life

Is fall'n into the sear,the yellow leaf;

And that which should accompany old age,

As honour,love,obedience,troops of friends,

I must not look to have.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

The Passionate Pilgrim(attribution doubtful)

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:

Youth is full of pleasance,age is full of care.

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950

Man and Superman „Maxims:Stray Sayings"

Youth,which is forgiven everything,forgives itself nothing:age,which forgives itself everything,is forgiven nothing.

Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822

Hellas

The world's great age begins anew,

The golden years return,

The earth doth like a snake renew

Her winter weeds outworn;

Heaven smiles,and faiths and empires gleam,

Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

Southey Robert 1774-1843

„The Old Man's Comforts"

In the days of my youth I remembered my God!

And He hath not forgotten my age.

Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.

Stoppard Tom

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Thomas Dylan 1914-1953

„Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage,rage against the dying of the light.

Toynbee Arnold 1889-1975

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Vaux Thomas 1510-1556

„The Aged Lover Renounceth Love"

For age with stealing steps

Hath clawed me with his clutch,

And lusty life away she leaps,

As there had been none such.

Wilde Oscar 1854-1900

A Woman of No Importance

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

Wordsworth William 1770-1850

„The Fountain"

The wiser mind

Mourns less for what age takes away

Than what it leaves behind