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
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
