Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
- William Shakespeare
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
- Richard Armour
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
- Robert Frost
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
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