The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
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.
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
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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
