Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
