Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
- James A. Froude
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
- Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
- Richard Armour
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
An old man is twice a child.
- William Shakespeare
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
- Norman Wisdom
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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