What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Age
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
