Quotes about age
264 quotes from 181 people
Democritus460–360 BCFreeman (1948), p. 152
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Methuselah’s Children (1958)
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XXVIIBlessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Alice, or The Mysteries (1838), Book V, Chapter II’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1904), Act VOld age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky1879–1940Trotsky’s Diary in Exile — 1935 (1958)Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Morituri Salutamus (1875), St. 24.Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act II, scene vGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
André Maurois1885–1967The Art of Growing OldWhoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 1028 (Bartlett’s, 1892)No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne1572–1631Elegies, No. 9, The Autumnal, line 1I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind (1960), p. 80I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Out of My Later Years (1950), Ch. 2 “Self-Portrait” (1936), p. 5To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894“On the Seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe” (May 27, 1889); reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)