Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
