The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
