We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
