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
Quotations
Age
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
