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
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
