Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Age
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
