We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
