The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
