Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
