Quotations
Age
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
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
An old man is twice a child.
- William Shakespeare
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
- James A. Froude
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