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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
