Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
