The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
