To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
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
