The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
