A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
