All WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quotes about “Age”

“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”
“Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.”
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
“If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.”
“You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.”
“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.”
“He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.”
“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?”
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.”
“Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.”
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.”
“You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame”
“How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!”
“You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.”
“There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.”
“Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.”
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
“Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.”
“Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.”
“My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.”
“Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.”

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