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
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
