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We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, read more
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
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.
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.
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.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, read more
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.