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
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
