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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings read more
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
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.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the read more
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set read more
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.