One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Quotations
Age
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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