You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
