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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
