To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
