The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
Age
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
