The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
