To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
