An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
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 first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
