An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
