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 time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by read more

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

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.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.