Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
