A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
