A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
