You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
