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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning read more
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and read more
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
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.
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. read more
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.
