Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.

The saying contrasts physical aging with mental aging, suggesting that the more consequential “wrinkles” of later life are not the lines on the skin but the hardening, narrowing, or fatigue that can settle into one’s thinking. Read in a Montaignian key, it cautions that age does not automatically confer wisdom: experience can deepen judgment, but it can also produce rigidity, fearfulness, and habitual opinions. The epigram therefore functions as a prompt toward intellectual suppleness—continuing to question oneself, revise beliefs, and remain open to novelty—so that the mind does not become more creased than the face.