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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. More
A lady of a “certain age,” which means
Certainly aged. More
A man can no more separate age and covetousness than ‘a can
part young limbs and lechery. More
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty. More
Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet. More
An old horse knows the road. More
As the fields fear drought in autumn, so people fear poverty in old age. More
As the moon waxes, then wanes, so at middle age do people decline. More
At age fifty five a man emerges like a tiger from his lair. More
At length I met a reverend good old man, More
Do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why, my skin hangs about me like an old lady’s loose gown; I... More
Do not worry about being old; worry about thinking old. More
Flowers have a time to reblossom, but human beings are never young again. More
For a younger person it is almost a sin—and certainly a danger—to be too much occupied with... More
For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike. More
Has no one said those daring
Kind eyes should be more learn’d?
Or warned you how... More
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white
beard, a decreasing leg, an... More
He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age! More
He who does not listen to the words of his elders will surely suffer soon. More
Her face seems ravaged by both lightning and hail. But on yours there is something like the... More
Hire a young carpenter, but an old physician. More
I am thirty-three—the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. More
I could be well content
To entertain the lag end of my life
With quiet hours. More
I have lost my teeth in your service. More
I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester! More
I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I’m drinking more. More
I love long life better than figs. More
If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be
old and merry be a sin, then many... More
In my age, monsieur, one is never well. Especially on the holidays. More
In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are... More
In my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. More
In the mountains there are thousand-year-old trees, but in the towns there are hardly any... More
In the Yangtze River waves push the waves ahead; so in life new people constantly replace the old... More
In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or... More
In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the... More
In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques. More
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac. In age, we put out... More
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness, and... More
Let’s take the instant by the forward top;
For we are old, and on our quick’st... More
Miss Knag still aimed at youth, although she had shot beyond it, years ago. More
My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid. More
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts. More
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. More
Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise. More
Of course I’m respectable. I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get... More
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! More
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to... More
Old and young disbelieve one another’s truths. More
One may be old in years, but not in spirit, or poor in wealth, but not in ambition. More
Only one comes back with me tomorrow, probably Miss Eliza, & I
rather dread it. We shall... More
Raise children for your old age as you would store up grain against famine. More
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the... More
She is a prude in her own defence ... under the specious mask of propriety, she conceals the... More
Slenderness in old age is worth more than a thousand ounces of gold. More
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty. More
That he is old, the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it. More
That reverend Vice, that grey Iniquity, that father Ruffian,
that Vanity in years. More
Thatcher: You’re too old to call me “Mr. Thatcher,” Charles.
Charles Foster Kane:... More
The cohort that made up the population boom is now grown up; many are in fact middle- aged. They... More
The command of comparisons that develops with age is, while no doubt good for the mind, somewhat... More
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. More
The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close. More
The more one worries, the older one gets; the more one laughs, the younger one feels. More
The morning rose, that untouched stands
Armed with her briars, how sweet she smells!
But... More
The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression; the youth expects to force... More
The road to the Other World all ages can travel. More
The satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards,
that their faces are wrinkled,... More
The sea is very old.
The sea is the face of Mary,
without miracles or rage
or unusual... More
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose, and... More
The years do not wait for us. More
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or... More
There are no dutiful children at the bedside of long-sick elders. More
There lives not three good men unhanged in England, and one of
them is fat and grows old. More
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly. More
They say an old man is twice a child. More
Think on me,
That am with Phoebus’ amorous pinches black.
And wrinkled deep in time? More
To be honest, I knew that there was no difference between dying at their years old and dying at... More
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn’t await the passing of years. More
Under an old oak, whose boughs were mossed with age
And high top bald with dry antiquity. More
Unregarded age in corners thrown. More
We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count. More
What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? More
What had really caused the women’s movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn... More
What should we speak of
When we are old as you? When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat... More
What, girl, though grey
Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha’ we
A brain... More
When one is very young, to read is as it were to pour a continuous stream of water on a parched... More
When people get old and pearls get yellow, neither are worth much. More
You that are old consider not the capacities of us that are
young. More
Young fellows are tempted by girls, men who are thirty years old are tempted by gold, when they... More
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter... More
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. More
Youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his... More
“Let me not live,” quoth he,
“After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff
Of younger... More

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