The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quotations
Age
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
