An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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.
