Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
- Albert Camus
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Jonathan Swift
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
- Norman Wisdom
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
- B. F. Skinner
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
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