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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
