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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
- Richard Armour
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
An old man is twice a child.
- William Shakespeare
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
- James A. Froude
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
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