Age Quote by William Cowper

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open…

— Richard Henry Stoddard

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no…

— Walter Scott

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

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

— Anonymous

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And that age was known as the Golden Age, until it was spoiled by the arrival of the women. —Snorri, Edda”

— Nancy Marie Brown

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads…

— Donald Hall

“For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the…

— Lord Dunsany

“The birth and death of stars, light reaching his aging eyes after a billion years racing across the near-vacuum, and sometimes he spent the…

— Ross E. Lockhart

“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than…

— Ezra Pound

“It seemed that in heaven people could be any age they liked, just so long as they had experienced that age on Earth.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining.

— Casper Smart