As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
