You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
