We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
