Quotations
Age
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Jonathan Swift
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Helen Rowland
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
- Frank M. Robinson
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
- Robert Frost
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- 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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
- Richard Armour
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