Quotations
Age
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
- Muhammad Ali
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
- James A. Froude
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
- Robert Frost
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Jonathan Swift
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