An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
It 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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
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
