Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Age
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
