We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
