A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
