We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
