A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Age
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
