An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
