An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Quotations
Age
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
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.
