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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
