You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
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
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
