You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
