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
Quotations
Age
t 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
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
