No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. – John Ruskin
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. – Benjamin Disraeli
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. – Michelangelo
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. – Orson Welles
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. – Charles Kingsley
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. – William Blake
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. – Lord Byron
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. – William Wordsworth
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. – Charles Dickens
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. – Peace Pilgrim
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. – Mary Schmich
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. – Francis Bacon
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. – Andre Maurois
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. – W. Somerset Maugham
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. – Phyllis Diller
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. – Arthur Schopenhauer
