The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
