The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
