Age Quotes - page 2
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
A man who marries at my age isn’t taking a wife, he’s indenturing a nurse.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
I mean, after a certain age you figure out just because a button works doesn't mean you have to push it.
He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
[ An idle youth, a needy age.]
It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.
But an old age serene and bright,
And lovely as a Lapland night,
Shall lead thee to thy grave.
Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage,
Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.