The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Thomas Hardy
After a certain age, any new friends we make in our attempt to replace the ones we've lost are like glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs.
Nicolas Chamfort
If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.
Nicolas Chamfort
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
Cannonball Adderley
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.
Lydia Maria Child
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.
Horace Bushnell
Christianity and Islamism have been on their trial for the last eighteen and twelve centuries. They have been ardent in proselytizing, yet they embrace only one-tenth and one-twentieth of the human race. Hj Abd would account for the tardy and unsatisfactory progress of what their votaries call "pure truths," by the innate imperfections of the same. Both propose a reward for mere belief, and a penalty for simple unbelief; rewards and punishments being, by the way, very disproportionate. Thus they reduce everything to the scale of a somewhat unrefined egotism; and their demoralizing effects become clearer to every progressive age.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun
I have retired to Nemours to work upon a novel called The Age for Love, and it is on this subject that I wished to consult you, my dear master.
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
Ovid
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. White