I'm not afraid of aging.
An old codger rampant and still learning.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
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.
I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example I think t...
I hope you learn how to slow down and not let your life pass you by while you're watching the idiot box. Life's short, and one day you'll wake up and look in the mirror and realize you look like King...
I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory."--Fidelis O Mkparu
Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears
Those whose lives have been an exercise in the pitting of their wits, or the selling of their talents, time and strength, to those who pay the piper, can even in their old age, even with their wits pa...
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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.
Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped...
...A mirror can trick you day by day into thinking you remain looking and existing in one way forever. But a photograph presents you with the truth: it freezes you eternally, existing as a reminder th...
Make the second 50 the best 50
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
No gains without pains.
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he...
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
If the young only knew if the old only could.
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasu...