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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
