A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
