The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
