We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Age
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
