A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
