Age Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

— Thomas a Kempis

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

— George Herbert

Certainly old men are old, but they keep going strong, don't they?

— Julio Cesar Chavez Sr

The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.

— Gerard De Nerval

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

— Thomas Jefferson

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

— Meryl Streep

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

— Doris Day

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

— John Dryden

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

— John Steinbeck

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most…

— John Steinbeck