We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
