The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quotations
Age
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
