An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
t 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
