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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
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
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
