The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
