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
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
