Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But...
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.
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...
Aging is something! It always makes you remember yesterday!
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.
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;...
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always super...
Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
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.
Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.
Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.
Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!
She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or...
The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life.
Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.
Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.