What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Age
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
