The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
