Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
- Frank M. Robinson
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
t 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
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
- Albert Camus
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
- James A. Froude
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
- B. F. Skinner
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