Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Age
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
