You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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 first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
