The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
