The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
