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
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
