The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
