Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Quotations
Age
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
