We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
