Quotations
Age
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
- Mark Twain
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
- Richard Armour
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
- Plato
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