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
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
