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Classical antiquity5 quotes
Old to grow, but ever learning. — Solon · 119With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. — Job · 500 BCThe old are in a second childhood. — Aristophanes · 423 BCOld age: the crown of life, our play's last act. — Cicero · 44 BCOld age is the harbor of all ills. — Bion of Borysthenes · 240The Renaissance4 quotes
My age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty but kindly. — William Shakespeare · 1616If youth knew; if age could. — Henri Estienne · 1594How much more elder art thou than thy looks! — William Shakespeare · 1598They say an old man is twice a child. — William Shakespeare · 1616Age of Enlightenment2 quotes
Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. — Jonathan Swift · 1727The abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life. — Edward Gibbon · 1794Old Testament Era2 quotes
A gray head is a crown of glory; It is found in the way of righteousness. — Proverbs 16:31 · 686 BCAnd all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. — Genesis 5:27 · 1405 BC