Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Age
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 is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
