To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
