Quotations
Age
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
An old man is twice a child.
- William Shakespeare
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.
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
- Michel De Montaigne
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
- Richard Armour
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
- Robert Frost
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