Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
