Age Quotes - Page 22

• Age is no guarantee of maturity.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Maturity

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.23, Bethany House

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• Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Long, Pathways, Thread

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.74

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• Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

  William Shakespeare

  Pie, Porridge, Cheeks

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.166

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• Pray, do not mock me.
  I am a very foolish fond old man,
  Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
  And, to deal plainly,
  I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  1605-6 Lear to Cordelia. King Lear, act 4, sc.6, l.52-6.

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• The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
  And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Sunshine, Shadow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.353, Wildside Press LLC

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• How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow
  Into the arctic regions of our lives,
  Where little else than life itself survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  May, Littles, Flow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• And the bright faces of my young companions
  Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Faces, Young, Companion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.163, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  My Own, Short Time

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• I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hunger And Thirst, Proportion, Conversation

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• That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Weak Points, Levity

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• Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

  Samuel Johnson

  Credit, Form, Flattering

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.527

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• There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Nurse, Should

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.447

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• Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wish, Pleasure, Preservation

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author”, p.258

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• The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.

  Homer

  Birth

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• It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

  Madame de Stael

  Difficult, Grows

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• Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

  Nora Ephron

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Nora Ephron Dies at 71; Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor" by Charles Mcgrath, www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2012.

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• About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

  Stephen Leacock

  Aging, Good Things, Old Age

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• Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Spring, Heart, Winter

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• When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

  George Burns

  Funny, Here I Am, Eccentric

  "Just You and Me Kid", 1979.

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• You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

  Francis Spellman

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

  Alice James

  Comic, Ninety, Oneself

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• The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Teaching, Math, Nursing

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

  Agatha Christie

  Turning 50, Inspirational Birthday, 50th Birthday

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• Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

  Robert Quillen

  Hurt, Giving Up, Feel Better

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• The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Heart, Knaves, Youth

  "The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author".

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