Age Quote by Samuel Johnson

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

— Samuel Johnson

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

— Delphine de Girardin

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum,…

— Tacitus

“One of the gifts that comes with age is an appreciation for some of the more simple, more commonplace things that seem mundane earlier…

— Priscilla Shirer

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

— Laozi

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

— Philip Sidney

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

— William Wordsworth

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

— Socrates

“With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.”

— Rae Lori

“My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and…

— James Lee Burke