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
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
