We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
