Age Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

— Aeschylus

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of…

— Ellen Glasgow

“Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age…

— Plato

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men…

— Willa Cather

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

— Phillips Brooks

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the…

— Heath L'Estrange

“How can a true man find contentment in growing old while leading a leisurely and mediocre life?”

— Heo Gyun

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men…

— Alec Guinness

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

All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the…

— Charles Spurgeon