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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still read more
At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow read more
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
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.
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never read more
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.