A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
