An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
