The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
Old Quotes
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
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 […]
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
You know you’re getting too old when the candles cost more that the cake.
No man is so old but thinks he may yet live another year.
Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of […]
