We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
