For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell read more

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done. -Richard Needham.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it read more

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from read more

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Age considers; youth ventures.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of read more

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.