Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
