It is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
-Lord Byron
Quotations
Age
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
