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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
William Wordsworth on age

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
Gore Vidal on age

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
Cindy Crawford on age

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
John W. Gardner on age

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Virginia Woolf on age

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham on age

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Tommy Cooper on age

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins on age

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
Mick Jagger on age

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
Sophocles on age

At my age flowers scare me.
George Burns on age

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
George Burns on age

It is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles Spurgeon on age

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather on age

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Haruki Murakami on age

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 amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison on age

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison on age

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
John Kenneth Galbraith on age

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Charles de Montesquieu on age

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