An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
