An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
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
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
