A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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