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.
You do not play then at whist, sir! Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
You are the one who should quit! Because of drink and old age you have taken leave of your senses.
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
The vivacity which increases with old age is not so far removed from folly.
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.