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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It 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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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