Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of read more

Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.

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.

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.

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 exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from read more

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your read more

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.