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
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
