The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
