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
Quotations
Age
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
