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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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 does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
