We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
It 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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
