We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
