A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
