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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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