Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
