A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
t 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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
