To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
