Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Quotations
Age
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
