The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
