Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Helen Rowland
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
- Mark Twain
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
- B. F. Skinner
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