If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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