Age Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

— Augustus

An old man is another.

— Bonnie Raitt

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

— Irving Stone

“the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the surprise which a man can still feel after a…

— Victor Hugo

Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after.

— Taliesin

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

— Elsie de Wolfe

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

— Ben Kingsley

A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a…

— Ray Bradbury

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

— Leon Trotsky

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

— Jean Paul