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
Quotations
Age
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
