Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
