An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
