Age is a quality of mind. If you left your dreams behind, If hope is cold, If you no longer look ahead, If your ambitions’ fires are dead, Then you are old. But if from life you take the best, And if in life you keep the jest, If love you hold: No matter how […]
Age Quotes
Change excites me. I am fifty years of age. It’s when the mind catches up with the body.
Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church’s bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart; And, what’s incredible, alack! No more I hear a woman’s clack.
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I’m not old yet!
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to […]
A little more tired at close of day, A little less anxious to have our way; A little less ready to scold and blame; A little more care of a brother’s name; And so we are nearing the journey’s end, Where time and eternity meet and blend.
Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age.
You ought never to “sass” old people- unless they “sass” you first.
