The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
