An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
