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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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.
All diseases run into one, old age.
All diseases run into one, old age.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
It takes a long time to become young.
It takes a long time to become young.
Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.
Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.
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.
