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
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.
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
t 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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
