An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
