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
Quotations
Age
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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