John Dryden Age Quotations

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies

All, all of a piece throughout; / Thy chase had a beast in view; / Thy wars brought nothing about; / Thy lovers were all untrue. / 'Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.