Age Quote by Gustav Freytag

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last…

— Tryon Edwards

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

— Benjamin Disraeli

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are…

— Baron de Montesquieu

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

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get…

— Gloria Steinem

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work…

— Aurangzeb

“It is not until an age has receded into history, and all its mediocrity has dropped away from it, that we can see it…

— Arnold Bennett

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

— Maxwell Anderson

“In the past men were handsome and great (now they are children and dwarfs), but this is merely one of the many facts that…

— Umberto Eco