Age Quotes

9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves. — Samuel Richardson
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first… — Arthur Schopenhauer
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise. — Alexander Pope
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting… — Wilferd Peterson
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of… — Ernest Rutherford
Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things… — Ted Danson
Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old… — Anne Roiphe
The heart never grows better with age; I fear rather worse, always harder. — Lord Chesterfield
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest. — William Hazlitt
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit. — Aeschylus
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach. — Thomas Paine
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. — Samuel Johnson
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad

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