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
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
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
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
