An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
