Age Quotes

Sophocles wrote his Oedipus at 90 years of age; Pope Leo XII inaugurated most of his enlightenment policy after he was 70; Titian painted his masterpiece, the bronze doors of the sacristy of St. Mark’s at 85. Elihu Root died in 1937 at 92 years of age; he was one of the greatest statesmen America […]

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, – something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book.