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
Quotations
Age
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
