You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
