You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces read more

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were read more

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each love one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth as I am now.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.