A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
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
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
