A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
