Age Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

— John Dryden

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

— Anonymous

Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

— Susanna Centlivre

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give…

— Maurice Chevalier

Old is just youth with the benefit of experience.

— Anonymous

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are…

— Hermann Hesse