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.
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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never read more
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in read more
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a read more
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never read more
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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.
