An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
t 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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
