To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep read more

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell read more

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done. -Richard Needham.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.

Just as old age is creeping on space,
And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,
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Just as old age is creeping on space,
And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,
They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,
But in good company--the gout or stone.

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.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Age considers; youth ventures.

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.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.