The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
