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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
