Age

Famous quotes containing the word age:

“As the moon waxes, then wanes, so at middle age do people decline.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)