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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
