Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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.
