“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”– Francis Bacon Related Quotes “The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”– Doris Lessing “Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.”– Lawrence Durrell “Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”– Jonathan Swift