To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
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
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
