age Quotes

“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did when he was twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

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“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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“A hundred years is youth in a church and age in a house.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

topic:age anger

“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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“I replied: There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to enquire, whether the way is smooth...”

― Plato, The Republic

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“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

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“Again, just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as...”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

topic:age violence

“Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:wisdom age

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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