Quotations
Age

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
- Norman Wisdom

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

To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
- Albert Camus

We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

t is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
- Lord Byron

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Jonathan Swift

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Helen Rowland

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

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