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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
