Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
