Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Quotations
Age
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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