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
Quotations
Age
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
