Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
