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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.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, read more
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
a new friend is as new read more
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it
with pleasure.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of read more
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the read more
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have read more
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
