Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Quotations
Age
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
