Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
