Age Quote by Leon Edel

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”

— Francis Bacon

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

— Chad Harbach

Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master,…

— Plato

Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“An old mind is a thing to fear The truth, in its purest form is boring Through comedy, a person can hide his/her shortcomings…

— Alberto Arcia

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me…

— Neil Simon

Chekhov's stories are about the moment that a life goes off the rails and the price that will be paid - forever. That's a…

— Lorin Stein

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it…

— Andre Maurois

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer,…

— William E. Gladstone

“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that age reveals…

— Joan D. Chittister

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors…

— Francis Bacon