A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
