If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Quotations
Age
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
