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
Quotations
Age
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
