Age Quote by Aeschylus

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

— Aeschylus

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

— Aeschylus

“.. they look like they've escaped from a nursing home. Everywhere I turn I see puffy skin & radiant expressions, crinkles & pearls, broad…

— Tim Latham

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

— Maxwell Anderson

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

— David Berlinski

“Old Men’s Souls Within their ancient, decrepit bodies the souls of old men wallow. Poor things, so full of sorrow: how bored with the…

— Constantinos P. Cavafis

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and…

— Lydia M. Child

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

— George Herbert

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then…

— Anne Bradstreet

“Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches- They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them…

— William Carlos Williams

“society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see’.”

— James Kerr