Quotations
Age
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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
- Frank M. Robinson
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
- Robert Frost
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
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