Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
