You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
It 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
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
