Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
