A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
t 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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
