The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
