As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
