Age Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A third felicity of age is that ithas found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous…

— Anonymous

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old…

— Lyman Abbott

Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available…

— Sathya Sai Baba

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

— Jose Bergamin

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of…

— Margery Allingham

“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and…

— Samuel Ullman

“All three are hip-deep in midlife, when the eyes go and the waistline spreads and the city on the hill that shone so brightly…

— Mary McNamara

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people…

— Sophia Loren