Age Quote by Philip K. Jason

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

— Ambrose Bierce

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

— Voltaire

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

— Aeschylus

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

— Marcus Aurelius

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment…

— Fidel Castro

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness…

— George Eliot

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

— Lord Byron

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

— Ronald Blythe

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

— Gene Fowler

“Nutt was young and as such did not have that reverence for age that is had by, mostly, the aged.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Not aging is not the same as living, and without human contact, his soul dried up.”

— Mitch Albom