The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
