Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
