The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
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
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
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
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
