The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
