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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
