We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
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.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
