If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
