The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
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
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
