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
Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
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
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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