We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
