Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
