We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
