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
Quotations
Age
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
