The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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.
