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
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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