We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
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.
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
