The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quotations
Age
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
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
