The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
