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
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
