A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
