An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
