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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
It 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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
