Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
