The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
