You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
