Inspirational Quotes on Age

“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”

“It is often said that we live in a youth culture. It's a lie. We live in an old culture. We idolize youth because we are old. We are tired and bored. Ancient cultures respected the old because those cultures were young. They were not bored.”

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”

“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.”

“When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.”

“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”