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The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"
The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as read more
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.