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
Quotations
Age
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
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
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
It 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
