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
Quotations
Age
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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 an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
