Age

1. It is always in season for old man to learn.

                                                                       -Aeschylus, Age

2. Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

                                                                  -Disraeli, Coningsby

3. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom,

And one of the most difficult chapters in the great art-of living.

                                                                                       -Amiel

4. Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

                                                                          -Quoted by Bacon,

                                                                                 Apothegm

5. At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

                                                              -Franklin, Poor Richard's

                                                               Almanac

6. If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon heart. The spirit should not grow old.

                                                                        -James A. Garfield

 

7. The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear kind voice of friends and to say one's self: "The work is done".

                                                                    -Holmes II, Speech on

                                                                          his 90th birthday

8. Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

                                                                              -William Osler

9. In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

                                                                                       -Panin

10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

                                                                            -Psalms. XC. 10  

11. The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

                                                                              -Schopenhauer 

12. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

      Her infinite variety.

                                                                      -Shakespeare, Antony

                                                                       and Cleopatra. Act II.

                                                                         Sc. 2 

 

13. An old man is twice a child. 

                                                                   -Shakespeare, Hamlet.

                                                                            Act II. Sc. 2         

14. The old believe everything: the middle age suspect everything: the young know everything.

                                                                                             -Wilde