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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
