Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
