Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
