An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
