Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Quotations
Age
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
