You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
