Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
