We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
