Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
