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

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anaïs Nin

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli

If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
- B. F. Skinner

An old man is twice a child.
- William Shakespeare

Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
- James A. Froude

The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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