A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
