A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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"
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
