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
Quotations
Age
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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