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
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
