The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
