Age Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

— Anonymous

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.

— H. B. Warner

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

— Anonymous

Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

— Mark Twain

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

— Emile M. Cioran

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

— Anonymous

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

— William Shakespeare

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the…

— Heath L'Estrange

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age…

— John Mortimer