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
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
