We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Age
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
