A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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 youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
