Age Quote by Horace

“Ere I was old? Ah woeful Ere, Which tells me, Youth's no longer here! O Youth! for years so many and sweet, 'Tis known…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow…

— William Shakespeare

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

— William Shakespeare

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death…

— John Milton

“That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against…

— William Shakespeare

“Be thou the first true merit to befriend; His praise is lost, who stays till all commend. Short is the date, alas, of modern…

— Alexander Pope

“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we have to say: The oldest hath borne most;…

— Jean Hegland

“that there is but a certain limit of time appointed unto thee, which if thou shalt not make use of to calm and allay…

— Marcus Aurelius

“ To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think…

— Andrew Marvell

I Love thee, I love but thee. With a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold, and the stars grow old.

— William Shakespeare

“Busie olde foole, unruly Sunne; Why dost thou thus, Through windowes, and through curtaines call on us? Must to they motions lovers seasons run?…

— John Donne

“I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old”

— Bayard Taylor