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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
