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
Quotations
Age
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
