age - quotes

Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce, 1842-1914

was an US author and satirist

Age — that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

(Julius Henry) "Groucho" Marx, 1890-1977

was an American comedian and film star

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Agatha (Mary Clarissa) Christie, 1890-1976

was an English mystery author

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find — at the age of fifty, say — that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

( “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, 1977 )

George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

was an Irish dramatist and socialist

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

( “Man and Superman”, 1903 )

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882

was an US poet

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965

was a Franco-German (Alsatian) theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.