Age Quotes

• "Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart."
  By: Marguerite de Valois
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• "Age too shines out; and, garrulous, recounts the feats of youth."
  By: James Thomson (1), Seasons--Autumn (l. 1,231)
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• "O good gray head which all men knew."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, On the Death of the Duke of Wellington (st. 4)
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• "There cannot live a more happy creature than an ill-natured old man who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others."
  By: Sir William Temple
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• "Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavour. [Lat., Vetera semper in laude, presentia in fastidio.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), De Oratoribus (18)
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• "We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (II, 88)
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• "I swear she's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day."
  By: Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (dialogue I)
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• "No wise man ever wished to be younger."
  By: Jonathan Swift
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• "I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth."
  By: Jonathan Swift
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• "Years do not make sages; they only make old men."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "The smile upon the old man's lip, like the last rays of the setting sun, pierces the heart with a sweet and sad emotion. There is still a ray, there is still a smile; but they may be the last."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "When an old gentlemen waggles his head and says: "Ah, so I thought when I was your age," it is not thought an answer at all, if the young man retorts: "My venerable sir, so I shall most probably think when I am yours." And yet the one is as good as the other."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth
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• "We are always the same age inside."
  By: Gertrude Stein
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