Quotations
Age

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Jonathan Swift

To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
- Albert Camus

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 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

One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
- Robert Frost

Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
- Richard Armour

A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
- Frank M. Robinson

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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