Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
t 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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
