Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Quotations
Age
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
