You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
