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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.
Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.
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.
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.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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!
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of read more
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.