Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
