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
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
It 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
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
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
