We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
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 does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
