Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
t is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
-Lord Byron
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
