As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
It 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 is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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