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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
