The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
