We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
