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
Quotations
Age
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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.
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
