We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
t is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
-Lord Byron
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
