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
Quotations
Age
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
