Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story read more

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking read more

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength they be fourscore read more

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength
labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.

Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.

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!