The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
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
"Coningsby"
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
