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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story read more
Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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.
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.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.
Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a read more
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
