Age Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for…

— Sophie Swetchine

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the…

— Thomas Arnold

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible…

— Lydia Sigourney

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“For other forms of relaxation are not so universally suited to all ages, times, and places; but these studies [of literature] sustain youth and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now…

— George Santayana