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
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
