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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
- Albert Camus
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Jonathan Swift
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
- Richard Armour
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