Quotes about age
264 quotes from 181 people
Francis Bacon1561–1626Apophthegms (1624), No. 97We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Old Age
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Dawn of Day (1881), § 297A boy’s will is the wind’s will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Summing Up (1938), p. 290Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.
George Berkeley1685–1753Can Love be controlled by Advice?, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002The Humble Programmer (1972)Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Cymbeline (1610), Act IV, scene ii.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 24
Pearl S. Buck1892–1973My Several Worlds (1954), p. 337The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Victory: An Island Tale, part IV, Ch. 14
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Love Among the Artists (1900)