A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
