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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking read more
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces read more
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it read more
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.
Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength they be fourscore read more
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength
labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust,
and old authors to read.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust,
and old authors to read.