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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
- Shakespeare William

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
- Gerard Ralph

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.
- Kennedy John F.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
- Defoe Daniel

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
- Romulo Carlos Pena

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
- Carlyle Thomas

All the great ages have been ages of belief.
- Emerson Ralph Waldo

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- Hope Bob

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
- Sumner Charles

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
- Robbins Anthony

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
- Pound Ezra

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
- Hugo Victor

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
- Ziggy

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
- Longfellow Henry Wadsworth

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.
- Paige Leroy ''Satchel''

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
- Mathews William

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
- Moreau Jeanne

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
- Mcluhan Marshall

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
- Desmoulins Camille

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- Arden Elizabeth

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- Kennedy John F.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
- Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
- Cicero Marcus T.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Whitman Walt

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
- Huxley Aldous

The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools.
- Anonymous

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.
- Hemingway Ernest

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
- Kierkegaard Soren

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
- Plato

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
- Lippmann Walter

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
- Maclaren Alexander

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
- Erasmus Desiderius

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
- Beauvoir Simone De

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
- Wilde Oscar

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
- Maugham W. Somerset

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
- Pound Ezra

The surest sign of age is loneliness.   - Alcott Amos Bronson

Age will not be defied.
- Bacon Francis

Old age is the verdict of life.
- Barr Amelia E.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
- Burke Billie

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
- Burke Billie

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
- Chevalier Maurice

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
- Curtis George William

Keep on raging -- to stop the aging.
- Delltones The

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
- Durrell Lawrence

If youth knew; if age could.
- Estienne Henri

Old age is a shipwreck.
- Gaulle Charles De

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
- Hayes Helen

The worst old age is that of the mind.
- Hazlitt William

Age, like distance lends a double charm.
- Holmes Oliver Wendell

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
- Jewet Sarah Orne

Talking is the disease of age.
- Johnson Ben

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
- Landor Walter Savage

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
- Mcdonald Trevor

Minds ripen at very different ages.
- Montagu Elizabeth

Live your life and forget your age.
- Peale Norman Vincent

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
- Pindar

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
- Anonymous

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- Rahel

Age considers; youth ventures.
- Raupach

All diseases run into one. Old age.
- Emerson Ralph Waldo

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
- Wilde Oscar

Education is the best provision for old age.
- Aristotle

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age.
- Anonymous

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
- Browne Sir Thomas

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
- Chamfort Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
- Confucius

To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
- Blake William

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
- Huxley Aldous

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
- Shakespeare William

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- Simon St.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
- Stoppard Tom

Age withers only the outside.
- Anonymous

Age carries all things away, even the mind.
- Virgil

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
- Wharton Edith

Old wine and friends improve with age.
- Proverb Italian

Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
- Proverb Greek

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
- Emerson Ralph Waldo

 

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