We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
It 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
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
