Age Quotes
Age is another Shakespeare topic, followed by Byron, Longfellow, Seneca and La Rochefoucauld. The best-sourced lines range from sour to funny. Disraeli, in Vivian Grey (1826), hopes the heritage of old age is not despair. Emerson, in Society and Solitude (1870), says we do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count. George Carlin, in It’s Bad for Ya (2008), points out that one great thing about getting old is that you can get out of social obligations just by saying you’re tired.
Three entries are flagged: a passage on the feeling of no longer being a boy, credited to Anatole France, and one on providing for old age so that it may meditate, credited to Pearl S. Buck, are marked misattributed, and Dryden’s lines on old age creeping on with silent pace are disputed.
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself!
A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman is as old as she looks.
The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.