Sayings about Age:

The instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Abstinence in extremity will prove a mortal disease; but the experiments of it are very rare.
John Arbuthnot
A recovery in my case and at my age is impossible: the kindest wish of my friends is euthanasia.
John Arbuthnot
Age makes us most fondly hug and retain the good things of this life, when we have the least prospect of enjoying them.
Francis Atterbury
Cicero was at dinner, when an ancient lady said she was but forty: one that sat by rounded him in the ear, She is far more, out of the question. Cicero answered, I must believe her, for I have heard her say so any time these ten years.
Francis Bacon
Old men who have loved young company, and been conversant continually with them, have been of long life.
Francis Bacon
The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, who had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old; and so likewise did many of the grammarians and schoolmasters, as Orbilius.
Francis Bacon
Borne on the swift, tho’ silent wings of time,
Old age comes on apace, to ravage all the clime.
James Beattie
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Hugh Blair
Age shakes Athena’s tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Lord Byron
The choleric fall short of the longevity of the sanguine.
Sir Thomas Browne
Old men do most exceed in this point of folly, commending the days of their youth they scarce remembered, at least well understood not.
Sir Thomas Browne
No man lives too long who lives to do with spirit and suffer with resignation what Providence pleases to command or inflict; but, indeed, they are sharp commodities which beset old age.
Edmund Burke
A man of great sagacity in business, and he preserved so great a vigour of mind even to his death, when near eighty, that some who had known him in his younger years did believe him to have much quicker parts in his age than before.
Earl of Clarendon
Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions, that we may disengage from the world by degrees.
Jeremy Collier
The continual agitations of the spirits must needs be a weakening of any constitution, especially in age: and many causes are required for refreshment betwixt the heats.
John Dryden
Sobriety in our riper years is the effect of a well-concocted warmth; but where the principles are only phlegm, what can be expected but an insipid manhood and old infancy?
John Dryden
Age oppresses us by the same degrees that it instructs us, and permits not that our mortal members, which are frozen with our years, should retain the vigour of our youth.
John Dryden
From fifty to threescore he loses not much in fancy; and judgment, the effect of observation, still increases.
John Dryden
O, sir! I must not tell my age.
They say women and music should never be dated.
Oliver Goldsmith
Slow-consuming age.
Thomas Gray
While grace celestial with enliv’ning ray
Beam’d forth to gild the ev’ning of his day.
Dr. Walter Harte
Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one; and the ordinary course of the world is more according to Job’s observation, who giveth men advice to seek wisdom among the ancients, and in the length of days understanding.
Richard Hooker
To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure.
Ben Jonson
Press’d with the weight of more than fourscore years.
George Lillo
Tell me what you find better, or more honourable than age. Is not wisdom entail’d upon it? Take the pre-eminence of it in every thing; in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
Shakerly Marmion
Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
Alexander Pope
Most men in years, as they are generally discouragers of youth, are like old trees, which, being past bearing themselves, will suffer no young plants to flourish beneath them.
Alexander Pope
I grieve with the old for so many additional inconveniences, more than their small remain of life seemed destined to undergo.
Alexander Pope
Increase of years makes men more talkative, but less writative, to that degree that I now write no letters but of plain how d’ ye’s.
Alexander Pope
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil’s leavings.
Alexander Pope
Just at the age ’twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Sir Walter Scott
Come forth, old man,—thy daughter’s side
Is now the fitting place for thee:
When time has quell’d the oak’s bold pride,
The youthful tendril yet may hide
The ruins of the parent tree.
Sir Walter Scott
Old friends are best. King James us’d to call for his old shoes, they were easiest for his feet.
John Selden
When the age is in, the wit is out.
William Shakespeare
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
His cheek the map of days outworn.
William Shakespeare
Crabbed age and youth, cannot live together.
William Shakespeare
Your date is better in your pie
And your porridge, than in your cheek.
William Shakespeare
Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.
William Shakespeare
I have seen more days than you.
William Shakespeare
You see me here,—a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both!
William Shakespeare
Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;
Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg
That you’ll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.
William Shakespeare
Age, which unavoidably is but one remove from death, and consequently should have nothing about it but what looks like a decent preparation for it, scarce ever appears of late days but in the high mode, the flaunting garb and utmost gaudery of youth.
Robert South
Those who by the prerogative of their age should frown youth into sobriety imitate and strike in with them, and are really vicious that they may be thought young.
Robert South
Those who by the prerogative of their age should frown youth into sobriety imitate and strike in with them, and are really vicious that they may be thought young.
Robert South
Let not men flatter themselves that though they find it difficult at present to combat and stand out against an ill practice, yet that old age would do that for them which they in their youth could never find in their hearts to do for themselves.
Robert South
The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be found much greater.
Robert South
Tiberius was bad enough in his youth; but superlatively and monstrously so in his old age.
Robert South
The nearer I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labour and sorrow, the more I prop myself upon those few supports that are left.
Jonathan Swift
The troubles of age were intended … to wean us gradually from our fondness of life the nearer we approach to the end.
Jonathan Swift
Old women, and men too,… seek, as it were, by Medea’s charms, to recoct their corps, as she Eson’s, from feeble deformities to sprightly handsomeness.
Jeremy Taylor
What great thing soever a man proposed to do in his life, he should think of achieving it by fifty.
Sir William Temple
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Authors by sayings about age: John Arbuthnot, Francis Atterbury, Francis Bacon, James Beattie, Hugh Blair, Lord Byron, Sir Thomas Browne, Edmund Burke, Earl of Clarendon, Jeremy Collier, John Dryden, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray, Dr. Walter Harte, Richard Hooker, Ben Jonson, George Lillo, Shakerly Marmion, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Scott, John Selden, William Shakespeare, Robert South, Jonathan Swift, Jeremy Taylor, Sir William Temple.
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