Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Quotations
Age
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
