Age Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

— Samuel Richardson

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser'…

— Jenna Morasca

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

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age,…

— Thucydides

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

— David Gemmell

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it…

— Giacomo Leopardi

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

— Emile M. Cioran

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical…

— Colleen McCullough

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

— Gerald Brenan

Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to…

— Lorenzo Snow

“If old people be found in the way of righteousness, their age will be their honour. Old age, as such, is honourable, and commands…

— Matthew Henry