That is the Great Fallacy: the Wisdom of Old Men

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If you’ve never seen a real, fully developed look of disgust, just tell your son how you conducted yourself when you were a boy. – Frank McKinney

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. – Oscar Wilde

I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. – Rodney Dangerfield

Middle age: When you’re sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you. – Ogden Nash

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. – T.S. Eliot

Work is the basis of living. I’ll never retire. A man’ll rust out quicker than he’ll wear out. – Colonel Harland Sanders

That is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise, they grow careful. – Ernest Hemingway