Age Quote by Ovid

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you…

— Ovid

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

— Leonardo da Vinci

When you become old, things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a come…

— Anonymous

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

— James Joyce

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

— Woody Allen

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

— Horace

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.

— Anne Sexton

“Something is always going wrong with our teeth. They don’t last anything like a lifetime, usually. What chain of events in evolution should we…

— Kurt Vonnegut

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands,…

— Juvenal

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

— Benjamin Franklin

The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.

— George Herbert