Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
It 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
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
