We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
