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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
