If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Quotations
Age
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
It 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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
