As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Quotations
Age
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
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
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
