The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
t is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
-Lord Byron
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
