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
Quotations
Age
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
