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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you read more
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Youth is wasted on the young.
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 awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of read more
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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.
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of read more
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.