The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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"
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
