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
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
