The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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
The desires of our youth are the riches of our old age.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
