One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
