The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
