You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It 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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
