You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
