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
Quotations
Age
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
