Quotes
Quotes about Age
Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play.
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each love one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth as I am now.
He has grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life. So that no wonder waits him.
Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Age considers; youth ventures.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
