Age Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

— Joanna Baillie

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Youth is always a little offended to find itself not preferred: it cannot help feeling that when it admits the old to its society,…

— Margery Sharp

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in…

— Epicurus

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next…

— Samuel Johnson

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Old is just youth with the benefit of experience.

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

— Chilon of Sparta

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