Samuel Ullman Quotes on Age and Birthday

Samuel Ullman Comment

Share…“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give …

Euripides Quotes on Birthday and Time

Euripides Comment

Share…“If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.” ~ Euripides

Sophocles Comment

Share…“No lie ever reaches old age.” ~ Sophocles

James Russell Lowell Comment

Share…“A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.” ~ James Russell Lowell

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Comment

Share…“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Voltaire Comment

Share…“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.” ~ Voltaire

James A. Garfield Comment

Share…“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.” ~ James A. …

Victor Hugo Comment

Share…“Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.” ~ Victor Hugo

Jerome K. Jerome Comment

Share…“Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,” has been the cry ever since Adam’s fifty-first birthday.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Joseph Joubert Comment

Share…“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.” ~ Joseph Joubert