Age Quote by Samuel Johnson

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all…

— Margaret Mead

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

— Lydia Sigourney

It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This,…

— Josiah Johnson Hawes

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

— Samuel Johnson

“For a few unfortunate kids, winter did not spell the end of the school year. There were the so-called voluntary winter courses. No kid…

— Khaled Hosseini

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season-- delightful if it happen to be a favoured one, but in practice…

— Samuel Butler

Only to youth will spring be spring.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

— The Talmud

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the…

— Anonymous

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for…

— Christian Nestell Bovee