3 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Age

Samuel Johnson quotes on age

39. Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.

116. Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

190. There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not remember where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, 'His memory is going.'