The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
t 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
