The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
