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
Quotations
Age
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
