Age Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

— Thomas Carlyle

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

— William Wordsworth

“At the age of six, I was seized by the mania of drawing the shape of objects. By the age of fifty, I had…

— Anna Gavalda

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

— Sophie Swetchine

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

— Anonymous

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

— William Shakespeare

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Then the earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and showing signs of age, its ways becoming whimsical and strange in the manner of a…

— Michael Moorcock

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain?…

— John Dryden

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer,…

— William E. Gladstone

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They…

— Henry David Thoreau