"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Age, Opportunity, Day, Dress

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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

Age, Class, End, Interest

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

Age, Character, Man

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

Age, Business, Dad, Cows

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

Age, Guitar, Play, Poems

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

Age, Information, Philosophy, Talk

"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

Tom Hanks, American Actor

Age, People, Babies, Being

"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."

Steven Morrissey, English Musician

Age, Now, Sense

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Age, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Age, Women, Fear, Living

"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Age, Aging, Speech, Wisdom, Time

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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

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"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets."

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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

Explore more quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think."

"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."

"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

"Love gives itself; it is not bought."

"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets."

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

"Into each life some rain must fall."