Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
The arctic loneliness of age.
No gains without pains.
Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.
I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.
How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in th...
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'
Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.
On the day of his death in his eightieth year Elliot 'the Apostle of the Indians ' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Becau...
As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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.
For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.
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