The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of read more

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.

Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

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),

The old are in a second childhood.

The old are in a second childhood.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

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.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.