The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
t is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
-Lord Byron
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
