To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
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
