An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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 youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
