Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
