An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
t 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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
