Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
