The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
