Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
t 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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
