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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Age

Age, like a double-faced Janus, looks all ways, and ponders wisely on the past.
—Barry Cornwall

The age of man resembles a book; infancy and old age are the blank pages, youth the preface, and man the body or most important part of life’s volume.
—Edward Parsons Day

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like mist upon the lea,
And like night upon the plain,
Old age comes o’er the heart.
—Robert Nicol

Age like winter bare.
—William Shakespeare