To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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 older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
