Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
