Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
