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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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