Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Age
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
