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
Quotations
Age
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
