Quotations
Age
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
- Plato
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
- Michel De Montaigne
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
- Norman Wisdom
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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