Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
Those of us who receive the blessing of a long life will also need to understand and manage grief and loss many times throughout our lives. Grief will come again, and again. Loss is a requisite part o...
A man of fifty is responsible for his face.
My mother and I looked at each other then, full in the face, more frankly than we'd done since I was small. I realized with a jolt that I was taller than she was by at least half a foot. When on earth...
All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while...
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.
It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.
I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight;...
You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. Yo...
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache fo...
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