Quotations
Age

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

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

We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
- Mark Twain

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

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anaïs Nin

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope

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

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Helen Rowland

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

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

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