It 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
Quotations
Age
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
