“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
Contributed by: Randi
Mark Twain
“Ignorance is the only illness...”
Sedat Seals
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
Aristotle
“Old age ain't no place for sissies.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
