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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's read more
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.
Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set read more
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
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.
What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre read more
What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre of the eye?
Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath?
Yes; but not this alone.
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!
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too
little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business read more
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too
little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the
full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
