To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it […]
Old Quotes
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Women’s hell is old age.
It is not by gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
