C. S. Lewis Age Quotes

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

- C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

- C. S. Lewis

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

- C. S. Lewis

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

- C. S. Lewis

In youth we learn in age we understand.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

- Alexander Hamilton

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

- Soren Kierkegaard

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

- Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

- Bertrand Russell

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Youth has no age.

- Pablo Picasso

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

- Phyllis Diller

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

- Paulo Coelho

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

- Joan Collins