Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
