We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
