A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
