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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
