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
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
