Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
