We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
t 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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
