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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
