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
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
