Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
