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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
