The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
