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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
