To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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.
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
