Age Takes Quotes
- Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan
- For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our… — Jean Paul
- The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. — William Wordsworth