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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.
I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my read more
I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set read more
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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.
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep read more
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
 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), 
For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell read more
For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done. -Richard Needham.