Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
It is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
-Lord Byron
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
