We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
