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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
