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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
