An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
