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
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
