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
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
