The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
