Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Age
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
