Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Age
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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