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
Quotations
Age
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 does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
