Quotations
Age
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
- James A. Froude
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
- Norman Wisdom
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anaïs Nin
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
- Albert Camus
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
- Muhammad Ali
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