“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”– Francis Bacon Related Quotes “Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.”– Muhammad Ali “There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age.”– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel “Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.”– Thomas Szasz