An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
