Quotes about Age
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
— Henry Ford
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
— Virginia Woolf
I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.
— Oprah Winfrey
I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.
— Dolly Parton
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
— William Wordsworth
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
— Vance Havner
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
— CS Lewis
. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.
— Ronald Reagan
Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.
— Walt Whitman
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
— Samuel Johnson