Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
