We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
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
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
