Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
