An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
