Age Quote by Edward Gibbon

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

— Pindar

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

— John Wolcot

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

— Ralph Nader

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds…

— Eugene O'Neill

This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

— Soren Kierkegaard

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run…

— Sydney J. Harris

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

— Ronald Blythe

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries…

— Edward Young

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.”

— Bill Clinton