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
Quotations
Age
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
