The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
t 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
