Quotes about age
264 quotes from 181 people
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol’n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
John Milton1608–1674On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three (1631)
Helen Mirrenborn 1945The Mail on Sunday (September 2015); reproduced in “Quote Unquote,” The Stage (17 September 2015)
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essays, Book III, Ch. 2, Of Repentance’Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and goneCherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Ogden Nash1902–1971Versus (1949), “Let’s Not Climb the Washington Monument Tonight”You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Dawn of Day (1881), § 297
Joyce Carol Oatesborn 1938Interview in The Guardian (18 August 1989)
George Orwell1903–1950“Extracts from a Manuscript Notebook” (17 April 1949), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4 (1968)- George Orwell1903–1950Review of A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays by Herbert Read, Poetry Quarterly (Winter 1945)
Linus Pauling1901–1994Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker (2001) by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1921–2021Said in a letter to The Oldie magazine after being voted “Consort of the Year”, as quoted in “Prince Philip voted ‘Consort of the Year’”, BBC News (11 February 2011).
