What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Age
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
t 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
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
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
