Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
