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
Quotations
Age
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
