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...
Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Old age is an island surrounded by death.
It is time to be old To take in sail.
Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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.
The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Old birds are hard to pluck.
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said "She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of...
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