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
Quotations
Age
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
