We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
