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
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
