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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it read more
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less read more
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows read more
The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
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.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.