Quotations
Age
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
- Frank M. Robinson
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
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
- James A. Froude
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
- Mark Twain
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Helen Rowland
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
- B. F. Skinner
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
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
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