Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
