age Quotes

“How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

topic:age foolishness

“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

topic:youth age

“Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything had which nature makes inevitable.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

topic:happiness age

“The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:age consciousness

“no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating...”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:women age

“Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can’t understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into...”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

topic:age

“He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:self belief age

“You know I'm old in some ways—in other—well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness—and I dread responsibility.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:age responsibility

“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

topic:age

“Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:age weakness

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