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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
