Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Jonathan Swift
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anaïs Nin
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
- Mark Twain
An old man is twice a child.
- William Shakespeare
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
- Richard Armour
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
- B. F. Skinner
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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