Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
