I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.

I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.

Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.

Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the read more

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it
ceased to be with Sarah after read more

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it
ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each love one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth as I am now.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.