The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
