Age Quote by 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

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

“Age was no guide then, nor is it now. The old and the young defy their endings, while others go too soon. Neither is…

— Conn Iggulden

Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

— Franz Grillparzer

“It is not until an age has receded into history, and all its mediocrity has dropped away from it, that we can see it…

— Arnold Bennett

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

— Sophocles

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years…

— Freya Stark

“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer anyone who…

— Søren Kierkegaard

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And…

— Paul Weller

“He was getting to be a certain age, he thought. It was the age when his never-to-be-written masterpieces had begun to outweigh the masterpieces…

— Keith Gessen