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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
t 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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
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.
