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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.
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.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing read more
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
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!
If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
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.