Age Quote by Walter Scott

“The whiles some one did chaunt this louely lay; Ah see, who so faire thing doest faine to see, In springing flowre the image…

— Edmund Spenser

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree…

— Henry Chorley

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

— Coventry Patmore

It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of…

— Horace

“We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or…

— Louisa May Alcott

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death…

— John Milton

“Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go; Or else, were this not so, What need to chain the hours, For…

— Henry Austin Dobson

Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? When young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet smiles we…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked…

— Robert Frost

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

— Jeremiah

“Our Fathers finde their graves in our short memories… Generations passe while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oaks.” His”

— J.D. Taylor

“There’s Father a-standing at the yard-gate,” said Martin Poyser. “I reckon he wants to watch us down the field. It’s wonderful what sight he…

— George Eliot