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
Quotations
Age
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
