We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
