Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Quotations
Age
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It 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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
