Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
