To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
