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
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
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
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
