A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
