One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Quotations
Age
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
It 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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
