Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
