The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
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
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
