The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
