Good old age. [ Genesis xv. 15 ]

Slow, consuming age. [ Gray ]

Beauty doth varnish age. [ William Shakespeare ]

An idle youth, a needy age. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An old man is twice a child. [ Shakespeare ]

Child of the earth's old age. [ Miss Langdon ]

Age considers, youth ventures. [ Raupach ]

Few people know how to be old. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Talking is the disease of age. [ Ben Jonson ]

Age whitens hairs, but not sin. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Nor age so eat up my invention. [ William Shakespeare ]

Old age is an incurable disease. [ Seneca ]

Reckless youth makes rueful age. [ Franklin ]

Life has surprises at every age. [ Alfred Mercier ]

Tales that have the rime of age. [ Longfellow ]

Old age is a heavy burden to man.

Art is pleasure, even in old age. [ E. Quellin ]

The silver livery of advised age. [ William Shakespeare ]

When the age is in the wit is out. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III Sc. 5 ]

His cheek the map of days outworn. [ William Shakespeare ]

Age and wedlock tame man and beast. [ Proverb ]

The wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind. [ Wordsworth ]

If youth knew what age would crave,
It would both get and save. [ Proverb ]

Our temples do not conceal our age.

The tall oak, towering to the skies,
The fury of the wind defies,
From age to age, in virtue strong.
Inured to stand, and suffer wrong. [ Montgomery ]

No age is shut against great genius. [ Seneca ]

What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own? [ Cowley ]

O good gray head which all men knew. [ Tennyson ]

Wherever there is power there is age. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The surest sign of age is loneliness. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Age and want sit smiling at the gate. [ Pope ]

Age either transfigures or petrifies! [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did, and does, smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I saved and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again. [ Browning ]

Cleanliness is the toilet of old age. [ Mme. Necker ]

What should we speak of
When we are old as you?
When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December. [ William Shakespeare ]

Knowledge in youth is sapience in age. [ Proverb ]

The ruins of himself! now worn away
With age, yet still majestic in decay. [ Homer ]

Be sure no lie can ever reach old age. [ Sophocles ]

No wise man ever wished to be younger. [ Swift ]

It is difficult to grow old gracefully. [ Madame de Stael ]

He was not of an age, but for all Time,
Sweet Swan of Avon. [ Ben Jonson ]

Love has no age: it is always in birth. [ Pascal ]

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards. [ Pope ]

Mellowed by the stealing hours of time. [ William Shakespeare ]

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. [ William Shakespeare ]

Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam.
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime.
And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give - though it might seem bold -
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold. [ Henry S. Leigh ]

In youth we learn; in age we understand. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

He who has lived a day has lived an age. [ Bruyere ]

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,
As they draw near to their eternal home. [ Edmund Waller ]

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name. [ Scott ]

The golden age never was the present age. [ Proverb ]

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. [ George William Curtis ]

A day of such serene enjoyment spent.
Were worth an age of splendid discontent. [ James Montgomery ]

From thoughtless youth to ruminating age. [ Cowper ]

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken.
What can an old man do but die? [ Hood ]

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains.
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! [ Milton ]

You see me here, - a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both! [ William Shakespeare ]

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. [ William Shakespeare ]

And the bright faces of my young companions
Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more. [ Longfellow ]

When age is jocund it makes sport for death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Old Age, a second child, by nature curst
With more and greater evils than the first.
Weak, sickly, full of pains: in every breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death. [ Churchill ]

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. [ William Shakespeare ]

Through age both weak in body and oblivious. [ Latimer ]

In old age nothing any longer astonishes us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven. [ William Shakespeare ]

For youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds
Importing health and graveness. [ William Shakespeare ]

The clock of his age had struck fifty-eight. [ Cellini ]

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway,
The passion and infirmity of age. [ Frowde ]

An hour may destroy what an age was building. [ Proverb ]

The stars shall fade away, the Sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. [ Joseph Addison ]

Age and wedlock bring a man to his night-cap. [ Proverb ]

Age and wedlock we all desire, and repent of. [ Proverb ]

What is sowed in youth will be reaped in age. [ Proverb ]

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both. [ Addison ]

The Golden Age is not behind, but before you. [ St. Simeon ]

Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. [ Milton ]

His hair just grizzled as in a green old age. [ Dryden ]

The evening of life brings with it its lamps. [ Joubert ]

Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled. [ Petrarch ]

In bringing up a child, think of its old age. [ Joubert ]

Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend;
The conscious moon, through every distant age.
Has held a lamp to wisdom, and let fall
On contemplation's eye her purging ray. [ Young ]

Every age confutes old errors, and begets new. [ Proverb ]

Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress;
And, as the evening twilight fades away.
The stars are seen by night, invisible by day. [ Longfellow ]

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours. [ Dryden ]

'Tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
Unburden'd crawl toward death. [ William Shakespeare ]

Shakspeare was not of an age, but for all time. [ Ben Jonson ]

Not that the heavens the little can make great,
But many a man has lived an age too late. [ R. H. Stoddard ]

Rashness belongs to youth, prudence to old age. [ Cicero ]

Commonsense is in spite of, not because of age. [ Lord Thurlow ]

They say women and music should never be dated. [ Goldsmith ]

It happens in an hour that comes not in an age. [ Proverb ]

Old age though despised, is coveted by all men. [ Proverb ]

'T is the sunset of life gives us mystical lore. [ Campbell ]

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise. [ William Shakespeare ]

Years do not make sages; they only make old men. [ Madame Swetchine ]

No age ever seemed the age of Romance to itself. [ Carlyle ]

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

Borne on the swift, tho' silent wings of time,
Old age comes on apace, to ravage all the clime. [ Beattie ]

Afflictions clarify the soul,
And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. [ Quarles ]

Love has no age, as it is always renewing itself. [ Pascal ]

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary.
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. [ Longfellow ]

My age is no longer the same, nor my inclination. [ Horace ]

You become milder and better as old age advances. [ Horace ]

If I could write the beauty of your eyes.
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches never touched earthly faces. [ William Shakespeare ]

We must not look for a golden life in an iron age. [ Proverb ]

It is personality not principles that move the age. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The youth is better than the old age of friendship. [ Hazlitt ]

The age of divine fantasy is gone, never to return. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Age is rarely despised but when it is contemptible. [ Johnson ]

As we grow old we become more foolish and more wise. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Friendship is a youth to which old age succeeds not. [ At-Tunikhi ]

The hell for women who are only handsome is old age. [ Saint-Evremond ]

While love decreases with age, friendship increases. [ E. P. Day ]

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone. [ Byron ]

A woman can keep one secret, - the secret of her age. [ Voltaire ]

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. [ Chapin ]

That exuberant age when all fresh fancies are fevers. [ Miss Braddon ]

Age is suspicious, but is not itself often suspected. [ Zimmermann ]

Love is the sovereign of youth and the tyrant of age.

Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. [ Swift ]

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb. [ Byron ]

O Life, an age to the miserable, a moment to the happy. [ Bacon ]

Nothing maintains its bloom forever; age succeeds to age. [ Cicero ]

A great career is a dream of youth realized in mature age. [ De Vigny ]

Every plan desires to live long; but, no man would be old. [ Swift ]

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it? — [ La Bruyre ]

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age. [ Propertius ]

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. [ Charles Sumner ]

Ours is the age of thought; hearts are stronger than swords. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. [ Victor Hugo ]

The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy. [ Gerard de Nerval ]

The only secret a woman guards inviolably is that of her age.

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. [ William Shakespeare ]

He who has not the spirit of his age has all the misery of it. [ Voltaire ]

Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

No golden age ever called itself golden, but only expected one. [ Jean Paul ]

In our world, death deputes intemperance to do the work of age. [ Young ]

Age bears away with it all things, even the powers of the mind. [ Virgil ]

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. [ Aristotle ]

Age too, shines out, and garrulous recounts the feats of youth. [ Thomson ]

It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age. [ Proverb ]

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age. [ Macaulay ]

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. [ Emerson ]

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. [ Shelley ]

For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion. [ Schiller ]

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [ Goethe ]

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. [ Robert Hall ]

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. [ Rochefoucauld ]

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. [ William Shakespeare ]

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us. [ Bernardin de St. Pierre ]

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. [ Tuckerman ]

Age and sorrow have the gift of reading the future by the sad past. [ Rev. J. Farrar ]

Hence (from sensual indulgence) sudden deaths and intestate old age. [ Juv ]

In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears. [ Joseph Roux ]

The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away. [ Willmott ]

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. [ William Shakespeare ]

I owe it to old age, that my relish for conversation is so increased. [ Cicero ]

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. [ William Shakespeare ]

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [ Cicero ]

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude, in all the ages. [ William Matthews ]

The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. [ Browning ]

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. [ G. Bancroft ]

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Whatever poet, orator, or sage May say of it, old age is still old age. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any. [ Beaconsfield ]

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. [ Chilo ]

Who of us has not regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips! [ J. J. Rousseau ]

More credit may be thrown down in a moment, than can be built in an age. [ Proverb ]

Age makes us not childish, as some say; it finds us still true children. [ Goethe ]

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living. [ Goldsmith ]

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. [ Hazlitt ]

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its peculiar manners. [ Boileau ]

Old age is a tyrant that forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

White hairs are the crests of foam which cover the sea after the tempest. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation. [ William Fleming ]

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. [ Steele ]

The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth. [ Homer ]

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. [ Ben Jonson ]

The pyramids, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. [ Fuller ]

Our age knows nothing but reactions, and leaps from one extreme to another. [ Niebuhr ]

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. [ La Bruyere ]

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Old age is not so fiery as youth, but when once provoked cannot be appeased. [ Proverb ]

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains. [ Robert Collyer ]

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

We live in an age when only unnecessary things are absolutely necessary to us. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, thou shalt be buried in a good old age. [ Genesis ]

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old! [ Stanislaus ]

An oak whose boughs were mossed with age, and high top bald with dry antiquity. [ William Shakespeare ]

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. [ Lady Montagu ]

Loss of strength is more frequently due to the faults of youth than of old age. [ Cicero ]

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. [ Richter ]

To elevate above the spirit of the age must be regarded as the end of education. [ Jean Paul ]

You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with exercise. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Why will you break the Sabbath of my days? Now sick alike of envy and of praise. [ Pope ]

Before old age, it was my chief care to live well; in old age, it is to die well. [ Seneca ]

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. [ Holmes ]

These are the effects of doting age, - vain doubts and idle cares and overcaution. [ Dryden ]

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells. [ Johnson ]

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Old age has deformities enough of its own; do not add to it the deformity of vice. [ Cato ]

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? [ Addison ]

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. [ Bacon ]

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. [ Cicero ]

Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

As the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, and in old age prudent. [ Socrates ]

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. [ Joubert ]

What folly can be ranker? Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. [ Young ]

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men. [ Auerbach ]

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. [ Jon Stewart ]

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. [ Lactantius ]

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing. [ George Eliot ]

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise and thinks too much to be beautiful. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age; but the heart can. [ Richter ]

Nature, as It grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy. [ William Shakespeare ]

We see time's furrows on another's brow; how few themselves, in that just mirror, see! [ Young ]

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. [ John Dryden ]

Discouragement is of all ages: in youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. [ Balzac ]

Hail, Memory, hail! in thy exhaustless mine from age to age unnumbered treasures shine. [ Rogers ]

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. [ Sir J. Davies ]

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. [ Grattan ]

It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. [ Cicero ]

He rejoices more than an old man who has put off old age, (i.e. has become young again). [ Proverb ]

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. [ Bacon ]

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so. [ Cicero ]

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. [ Goldsmith ]

Error is very well so long as we are young, but we must not drag it with us into old age. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A time there is when like a thricetold tale long-rifled life of sweets can yield no more. [ Young ]

Resolution is independent of great age, but without it one lives a hundred years in vain. [ Chinese Proverb ]

An old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. [ Wordsworth ]

Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived. [ Mme. Roland ]

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. [ Joubert ]

I know not any season of life that is passed more agreeably than that of virtuous old age. [ Cicero ]

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees. [ Young ]

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe. [ Wm. Mountford ]

Philosophy writes treatises on old age and friendship; Nature makes those on youth and love. [ D'Alembert ]

A truth to an age that has rejected and trampled on it, is not a word of peace, but a sword. [ Henry George ]

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. [ Rivarol ]

Even the lowest book of chronicles partakes of the spirit of the age in which it was written. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life. [ Richter ]

We hope to grow old, yet we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and shrink from death. [ La Bruyère ]

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. [ Colton ]

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Great was the respect paid of old to the hoary head, and great the honour to the wrinkles of age. [ Ovid ]

My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age. [ Bacon ]

We hope to grow old, and yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die. [ La Bruyfere ]

The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

The most dangerous weakness of old people who have been amiable is to forget they are no longer so. [ Rochefoucauld ]

When a man seems to be wise, it is merely that his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. [ Heine ]

Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

I scarcely exceed the middle age of man; yet between infancy and maturity I have seen ten revolutions! [ Lamartine ]

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. [ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) ]

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. [ Macaulay ]

Do you count your birthdays thankfully? forgive your friends? grow gentler and better with advancing age? [ Horace ]

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life, but they would assassinate you. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Study is the bane of boyhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age. [ Landor ]

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell that would tell anything. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Pleasure has its time; so, too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age, attend to thy salvation. [ Voltaire ]

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. [ Colton ]

Study is the bane of childhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restoration of age. [ Walter Savage Landor ]

One should never make one's debut with a scandal, one should reserve that to give interest to one's old age. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The age of curiosity, like that of chivalry, is ended, properly speaking, gone. Yet perhaps only gone to sleep. [ Carlyle ]

The age we live in is the true age of gold; by gold men attain to the highest honour, and win even love itself. [ Ovid ]

Youth will never live to age unless they keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Beautiful are the roses of your youth; but time destroys them; only talents, only virtue age not and never die. [ Pfeffel ]

The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them. [ Baron de Grimm ]

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. [ Arthur Helps ]

You will never live to my age, without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within that withers and bursts the husk. [ George Macdonald ]

The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored. [ Shaftesbury ]

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. [ J. Q. Adams ]

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the press than the pulpit. [ Goldsmith ]

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity. [ Watts ]

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. [ Stanislaus ]

In our age of down-pulling and disbelief, the very devil has been pulled down; you cannot so much as believe in a devil. [ Carlyle ]

He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age will hardly love them enough afterward to understand them. [ Earl of Clarendon ]

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. [ Cicero ]

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers. [ Alcott ]

Time is the greatest of all tyrants. As we go on towards age, he taxes our health, limbs, faculties, strength, and features. [ John Foster ]

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters. [ Emerson ]

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. [ Carlyle ]

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vita of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. [ Colton ]

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them. [ Swift ]

Superstition is certainly not the characteristic of this age. Yet some men are bigoted in politics who are infidels in religion. [ Junius ]

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack. [ Johnson ]

An aged Christian with the snow of time on his head may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven. [ E. H. Cbapin ]

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age. [ Richter ]

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us in solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. [ J. Collier ]

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? [ Montaigne ]

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. [ Barton ]

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous. [ Bruyere ]

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. [ George Eliot ]

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded. [ Montaigne ]

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. [ Boyle ]

At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen, is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to be read by their friends. [ A. Ricard ]

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. [ Addison ]

Think how completely all the griefs of this mortal life will be compensated by one age, for instance, of the felicities beyond the grave. [ John Foster ]

It takes an age to build a city, but an hour involves it in ruin. A forest is long in growing, but in a moment it may be reduced to ashes. [ Seneca ]

Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day! [ Lamartine ]

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. [ Horace Mann ]

The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury, and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants. [ Swift ]

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age. [ Burke ]

Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our journey's end? [ Cicero ]

When women have passed thirty, the first thing they forget is their age; when they have attained forty, they have entirely lost the remembrance of it. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work. [ Cicero ]

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one is the age of innocence, the other of reason. [ Joubert ]

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

The two weak points of our age are want of principle and want of profile. Style depends largely on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high at present. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect. Age looks back on the happiness of youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recollection of hope. [ Coleridge ]

Love is a bird of passage that women await with curiosity in youth, retain with pleasure in maturer years, and allow to escape with regret when old age creeps upon them. [ A. Ricard ]

The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. [ Chesterfield ]

When the age of the Vikings came to a close, they must have sensed it. Probably, the gathered together one evening, slapped each other on the back and said, Hey, good job. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasurable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris. [ Talfourd ]

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it. [ Martial ]

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchre of all his other passions, as they successively decay. But unlike other tombs, it is enlarged by repletion and strengthened by age. [ Colton ]

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In the youth of a State, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a State, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise. [ Bacon ]

Every age has its different inclinations, but man is always the same. At ten, he is led by sweetmeats, at twenty by a mistress, at thirty by pleasure, at forty by ambition, at fifty by avarice. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

The day of life spent in honest and benevolent labor comes in hope to an evening calm and lovely; and though the sun declines, the shadows that he leaves behind are only to curtain the spirit unto rest. [ Henry Giles ]

She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at the age when, if ever angels be for God's good purpose enthroned in mortal form, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers. [ Dickens ]

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following openly-declared purposes, and preaching candidly-beloved and trusted creeds. [ John Ruskin ]

Fiction is no longer a mere amusement; but transcendent genius, accommodating itself to the character of the age, has seized upon this province of literature, and turned fiction from a toy into a mighty engine. [ Channing ]

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. [ Juvenal ]

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands. [ John Ruskin ]

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told. [ Lowell ]

At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive. [ E. de Girardin ]

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. [ Chapin ]

Some new books it is necessary to read, - part for the information they contain, and others in order to acquaint one's self with the state of literature in the age in which one lives: but I would rather read too few than too many. [ Lord Dudley ]

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age. [ Beecher ]

Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age - flowers before they have bloomed, and trees ere they begin to bear. [ Rev. Dr. Guthrie ]

The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written. [ Sir William Jones ]

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age - the only perfectly beautiful things on earth - joyous, innocent, half divine - useless, say they who are wiser than God. [ Ouida ]

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. lie that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. [ Dr. Johnson ]

These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]

Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten. [ Washington Irving ]

Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoiled child of a semi-barbarous age. The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason; and the art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and readers wise enough to read. [ Colton ]

My May of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us. [ Bovee ]

A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of commonsense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Extreme old age is childhood; extreme wisdom is ignorance, for so it may be called, since the man whom the oracle pronounced the wisest of men professed that he knew nothing; yea, push a coward to the extreme and he will show courage; oppress a man to the last, and he will rise above oppression. [ J. Beaumont ]

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs: after this period, he takes his share of it with the others. [ Chamfort ]

A woman's life can be divided thus: the age when she dances but does not dare to waltz - it is the spring; the age when she dances and dares to waltz - it is summer; the age when she dances but prefers to waltz - it is autumn; finally, when she dances no longer - it is winter, that rigorous winter of life. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

Liberty, and not theology, is the enthusiasm of the nineteenth century. The very men who would once have been conspicuous saints are now conspicuous revolutionists, for while their heroism and disinterestedness are their own, the direction which these qualities take is determined by the pressure of the age. [ H. W. Lecky ]

The failure of his mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence: indolence, decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy. [ Sir Benjamin Brodie ]

It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]

Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it, all give it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the mind and opinion of the age. [ Daniel Webster ]

The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits. [ Dr. Johnson ]

It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. [ Addison ]

Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]

A woman at middle age retains nothing of the pettiness of youth; she is a friend who gives you all the feminine delicacies, who displays all the graces, all the prepossessions which Nature has given to woman to please man, but who no longer sells these qualities. She is hateful or lovable, according to her pretensions to youth, whether they exist under the epidermis or whether they are dead. [ Balzac ]

Wherever there is a sky above him and a world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. [ Carlyle ]

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]

Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! [ Emerson ]

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace. [ Tuckerman ]

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]