The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
