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
Quotations
Age
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
