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
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
