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
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
