Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

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.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed