We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
