William Shakespeare Quotes About Aging

• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  William Shakespeare

  Happy Birthday, Afterlife, Age

• ...an old man is twice a child.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Men, Aging

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.842

• Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, Hands

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [206]

• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

• I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fall, Yellow

  William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

• My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Winter, Age

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

• Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Time, Age

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

• A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Talking, Age

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [36]

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