An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
