Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
