Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, read more

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.

Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

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

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the read more

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.