An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
