The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
