We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
