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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
