5 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Age

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on age

62. Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children still.

78. Once a man's thirty, he's already old, He is indeed as good as dead. It's best to kill him right away.

119. It's not that age brings childhood back again, age merely shows what children we remain.

128. One has only to grow older to become more tolerant. I see no fault that I might not have committed myself.

152. Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.