Age Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It ought to be lovely to be old, To be full of the peace that comes with experience And wrinkled ripe fulfillment

— DH Lawrence

“As the face of beauty grows dim with age, so gradually the brilliancy of youth fades from the pearl and the complexion of it…

— Wallis Richard Cattelle

“When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!”

— Stephen Richards

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

— Joseph Campbell

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what…

— Socrates

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that the stage…

— Andre Maurois

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of…

— Sophie Swetchine

“Aesthetical expression of calmness and contentment glow on our face after burning ego into ashes”

— Kishore Bansal

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

— Isaac Watts

That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

“We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us....but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?”

— J.G. Farrell