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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
