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.

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.

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.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.

God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.

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.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.