Quotations
Age
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
- Robert Frost
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
- B. F. Skinner
An old man is twice a child.
- William Shakespeare
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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