Quotations
Age

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

An old man is twice a child.
- William Shakespeare

t 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

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken

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

Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde

We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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