When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person read more

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

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.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your read more

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date read more

It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.