We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
t 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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
