An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
