Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
