You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
