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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
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
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
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
