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
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
