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
Quotations
Age
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
