Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
