An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
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"
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
