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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
