The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
