One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Quotations
Age
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
