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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
