The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
