A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
