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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
- B. F. Skinner
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
- Nikita Ivanovich Panin
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
- Robert Frost
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
- Frank M. Robinson
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
- Norman Wisdom
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
- Mark Twain
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
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